John Ratzenberger Quotes
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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I love my sleep.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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I go to movies. I blend in.
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America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
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Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.
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I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'
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Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.
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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
