John Ratzenberger Quotes

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

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• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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  • Women
  • Home

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Everything
  • Himself

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hair

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Children
  • Art
  • May

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • You

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Son

• The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
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  • Live
  • Responsibility

• David Eddings:‏ I'm afraid that ignorance, hate, racism, and violence will be exacerbated by silence. If speaking out is not an answer then what is?Markus Persson:‏ Reading up on history, thinking for yourself, and not being an idiot.

  

  Markus Persson
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  • Thinking
  • History

• I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

  

  John Ratzenberger
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