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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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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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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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.
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I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.
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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.
