Jerry Van Dyke Quotes
I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I'm a political conservative.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
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You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
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It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.
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I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.
