Jerry Stiller Quotes

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

Jerry Stiller

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Environment

• If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Choice

• I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • War
  • Fall
  • End

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Hand
  • Body
  • Weakness

• The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Courage
  • Path
  • Cancer

• It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Important
  • You
  • Customer

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Start

• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • War
  • Happen
  • Things Happen

• I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Think
  • Day

• I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Live
  • Summer
  • Spring

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • You
  • Decisions

• You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Present
  • Yourself

• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  

  O. Henry
  • Power
  • Funeral

• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Peace

• Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • America
  • France
  • Diplomats

• The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Important
  • Free

• So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

  

  Buddy Rich

• If I put the top down, I start to burn in about five minutes.

  

  Kathleen Robertson

• Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

  

  Jerry Stiller