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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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'
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Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.
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The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
