Dennis Farina Quotes

When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Trump
  • Terrible

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Success
  • Place

• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Air
  • First
  • Too Much

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Bed

• I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Doing
  • Gun
  • Loved

• Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Together
  • Society
  • Support

• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Victory
  • Defeat

• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Doing
  • Challenges

• We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Women
  • Game
  • Old

• I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Work
  • Colleagues
  • Revival

• The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

  

  Alan Huffman

• I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Up
  • World
  • Rock

• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Society

• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Career