Dennis Farina Quotes

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

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• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Well
  • Mental

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • You
  • Mean
  • Door

• When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Food

• When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Government
  • Serving

• One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

  

  Os Guinness
  • World
  • Key
  • Sociology

• A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Product
  • Through
  • Pure

• If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Say
  • Will
  • Over

• At the end of the day, I'm a man.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Day
  • End

• His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Great

• En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• 'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Political
  • Smart
  • Teen

• We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • America
  • Band

• There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Heroisms

• I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me to write a joke where I don't end up on the ground for some reason. Hey, at least that way, I know no comics will steal my jokes. Too many bruises.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • Up

• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  

  Phil Niekro
  • Up
  • Good
  • Team

• External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Individual
  • Conditions
  • External

• Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.

  

  Alli Simpson
  • World
  • Extraordinary
  • Treasure

• Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

  

  Dennis Farina