Peter Scolari Quotes

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

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• We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Fun
  • Spiritual
  • Around

• Ozzy has dyslexia.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Dyslexia
  • Ozzy

• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Want
  • Journey

• I believe that dogma is often evil.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Often

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Taxes
  • Legal
  • Collecting

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Game
  • Change
  • Cards

• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Real

• We all get self-centered.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Get
  • Self-centered

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Up
  • History
  • Society

• Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Yourself

• If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Why
  • Bad

• It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

  

  Peter Scolari
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