David Hyde Pierce Quotes
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
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I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
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I'm very sturdy and very proud of it.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
