Jeff Garlin Quotes
Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?
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I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.
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I'm an optimist.
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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
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Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.
