John Ratzenberger Quotes

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Great
  • Tragedy

• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Parents
  • Famous

• I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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  • Want
  • Body

• I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • American
  • Law

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Thought
  • Ready

• The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Important

• You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

  

  Yul Vazquez
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  • Think

• When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

  

  James Lapine
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  • Different
  • Parents

• We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the team at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon is doing today under professor Howie Choset is making the 'snakebots' stronger, smaller, and more maneuverable than ever.

  

  Kelly Evans
  • Today
  • Team
  • Inspired

• I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

  

  John Ratzenberger
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