Dennis Farina Quotes
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I either run or try to play basketball every day.
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Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
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I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
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I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.
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For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?
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I was a policeman for 18 years.
