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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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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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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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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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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Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
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And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.
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If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.
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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
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I was a policeman for 18 years.
