Dan Aykroyd Quotes
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.
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We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all -Salma
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Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
