Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Weaver

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

William Dennis Weaver was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's trusty partner Chester Goode/Proudfoot on the CBS western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958).

American - Actor | June 4, 1924 - February 24, 2006

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Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Dennis Weaver

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

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Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

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If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

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Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

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We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

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It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

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When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

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If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

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We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

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Business must be the solution, not the problem.

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If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

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I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

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We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

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Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

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When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

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It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

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The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

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The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

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There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

Dennis Weaver

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

Dennis Weaver

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

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The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

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Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

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I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it; the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say 'meat-eaters' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

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I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.

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Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Weaver

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