Bob Uecker Quotes
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
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I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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You can go ahead and break a law, and you can come to a sanctuary city, and they wouldn't enforce the laws.
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To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
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I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
