David Ogden Stiers Quotes
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.
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People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
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I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
