Dave Attell Quotes
I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.
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The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
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I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.