Bob Saget Quotes
That would be a good public service announcement for Nickelodeon: 'Hi, this is Bob Saget. Don't fuck that shit. Stay in school. And read!'
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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I like to play strong women because there is so much emotion to bring to these roles.
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That would be a good public service announcement for Nickelodeon: 'Hi, this is Bob Saget. Don't fuck that shit. Stay in school. And read!'
