David Ogden Stiers Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.
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The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.
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Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
