"It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control."

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Source : Dick Van Dyke (2016). “My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke”, p.141, John Blake Publishing Ltd

Dick Van Dyke

#Mean Quotes #Chance Quotes #Said Quotes

“If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.”
“When people are on 'The Bachelor' it gives them the opportunity to put their best foot forward, especially when you're around the 'Bachelor' or the 'Bachelorette;' that one person who you're vying for attention with.”
“Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.”
“There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.”
“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.”
“Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.”
“Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.”

Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.
“Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'”

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