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I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

~Barbara Billingsley

Topics: Beaver Council Did Got Grandma Had Job June Leave New Out She Sure Tell Woman Work You

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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

~Barbara Billingsley

Topics: Always Am Be Careful Beaver Because Better Careful Come Day Doing Dreams Honestly One Day Said Show Think True Truly Wanted Wish You Your Your Dreams I Am

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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

~Dennis Banks

Topics: Away Bags Beaver Buffalo Chosen Coats Families Family Family Member Feast Gave Held Hides Honor Member Prized Respect Run Selected Tobacco

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Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

~Donald Rumsfeld

Topics: Beaver Dam Get Lawyers Like Middle Number Reduce Stream Up

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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

~Donna Brazile

Topics: American Andy Beaver Caricatures Cartoon Cliff Dad Dads Evolved Family Family Guy Fathers Guy Homer Life Like My Life Our People Public Real Real People Sheriff Shifted Simpson Taylor Tv Ward

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I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

~Elisabeth Rohm

Topics: About Age Audience Beaver Could Disappointed Eager Excited Gets Had Hope Idea Idealist Just Justice Like System Very Who

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At the premiere for 'Leave It to Beaver,' I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I'm wondering, 'What do I do?' So I had to think, 'OK, calm down, one person at a time.' Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.

~Erika Christensen

Topics: Afterwards Beaver Calm Calm Down Carpet Did Down Everything Good Had Kind Leave Name Ok Person Premiere Publicist Rattling Really Red Red Carpet Said Screaming Think Time Walking Were Wondering

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The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

~Ernest Thompson Seton

Topics: About Beaver Better Better Understanding Between Bring Company Effort Itself Monument Name Part Peace River Successful Understanding

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As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Beaver Beyond Color Danish Early Family Find Hamlet Human Island Leap Leave Living Look Me Past People Person See Silly Trained Truths Very Whether White

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