Dennis Farina Quotes

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

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• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • American

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Life
  • Guy
  • You

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pretty
  • Living
  • Rejection

• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Kind

• Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Me
  • Single
  • Popcorn

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nothing
  • Will
  • Worth

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Attention
  • Government

• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • World
  • Happy
  • Reading

• I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • True
  • Past
  • Lies

• For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Lost
  • English
  • Process

• I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Think
  • Write
  • Shopping

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Science
  • Result

• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Understanding
  • Very
  • Totally

• When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • People
  • Crazy
  • English

• I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Support
  • Balance

• When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

  

  Dennis Farina