Dean Winters Quotes

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

Dean Winters

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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Food
  • Grew

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • Praise
  • Royal

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Greed
  • Depend
  • Gravity

• With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Book
  • Convinced

• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Christian

• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Want
  • Always
  • Newspaper

• My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • School
  • Home

• Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Food

• Serpens, sitis, ardor harenaedulcia virtuti; gaudet patientia duris;laetius est, quotiens magno sibi constat, honestum.

  

  Lucan

• Ecce parens verus patriae.

  

  Lucan

• Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Mind
  • Conversation

• Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Up
  • Great
  • Health

• The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Done
  • America
  • Political

• Ride your horse calm, forward and then make him straight.

  

  Walter Zettl
  • Horse
  • Calm

• I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Insurance