Dan Aykroyd Quotes

I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

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• There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • True
  • Perception

• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fan
  • Excited
  • Actress

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Good
  • Job
  • Afraid

• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Desire

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Years
  • Own
  • Boat

• Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

  

  Edward Johnson, III

• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Live
  • Mountain

• The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Truth
  • Crush

• You have this idea that you’d better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

  

  Robin Williams
  • People
  • Break
  • Interested

• I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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