Dan Aykroyd Quotes
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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The world is no longer against us.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
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Having balanced nutrition is also very important to keep my body in shape and healthy.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
