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.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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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.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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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.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.
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I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
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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.
