Dan Aykroyd Quotes
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
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The tremendous honor of playing on the world stage is even more rewarding when I am able to use my accomplishments to help others.
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Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
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Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
