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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Newspaper

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Family

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Bold
  • Message
  • Forward

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• 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.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Watch

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• 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.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Think
  • Stupid

• If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Goals

• Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Life
  • Great

• Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World

• If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

  

  William Jennings Bryan

• I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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