Richard Dawson Quotes

• It’s wonderful to win, but don’t get cocky about it!

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• And I asked my mother about it; I said, ‘Is there something wrong?’ She said, ‘God… God makes people. You understand that, don’t you?’ And I said, ‘Yeah!’ She said, ‘Who makes a rainbow?” I said, ‘God.’ She said, ‘I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.’

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• Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

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• God bless all the little children in the world.

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• ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ lasted longer than the war.

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• I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

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• I’ve had the most incredible luck in my career.

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• If I never do another thing, I’ve met the good, sweet people of the world.

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• It’s important to me that on ‘Family Feud’ I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on ‘Family Feud’ and the world didn’t come to an end, did it?

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• The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I’d not seen that in England.

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• The thing that I loved about ‘Feud,’ we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That’s magic.

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• You wouldn’t want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

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• They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.

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• About 30 million people see me every week – I’m a happy man.

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• I abhor grades – if a child does his best, that’s all that should be asked.

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• There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that’s all. That’s what my mother did to me.

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Richard Dawson (16)

Birth:	20th November, 1932
Death:	2nd June, 2012
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Richard Dawson was an English American actor and comedian, and a game show host and panelist in the United States. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes, being the original host of the Family Feud game show from 1976–1985 and 1994–1995, and a regular panelist on the 1970s version of Match Game on CBS from 1973 to 1978.

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