"I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'MAS*H!'"

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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.

G.W. Bailey

#Character Quotes #Texas Quotes #Oil Quotes

“For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.”

Source : Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1805). “Introduction; Essay on the dramatick writings of Massinger, by John Ferriar; Commendatory verses on Massinger; A list of Massinger's plays; Glossarial index. The virgin-martyr. The unnatural combat. The Duke of Milan”, p.24
“The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.”

Source : "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.
“Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.”
“I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.”
“I said Revolver is my favorite The Beatles album, but only because it came to my head and it's a brilliant one. But they're all pretty brilliant. There's variations, but they're all brilliant, and it just depends on if they're very brilliant, or just a bit brilliant. It changes.”
“Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.”
“The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.”

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