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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We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
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I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
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A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
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When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.
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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
