John Astin Quotes

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

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• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Exist

• Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Great
  • City
  • New

• I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Think
  • Economy
  • Where

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Country
  • Animals

• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Life
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Band
  • Stand

• My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Looking

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Painting

• In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Questions

• If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Single
  • Woman

• I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Pressure
  • Albums

• We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Blame
  • Censor
  • Self-regulate

• I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Magic
  • Records

• You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Heart
  • Songs
  • Self-Conscious

• They The Beatles were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Band
  • Songs
  • The Beatles

• That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there.

  

  Alison Elliott
  • Songs
  • Show
  • Possibilities

• United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

  

  John Astin
  • Songs
  • Records
  • Films