George Gaynes Quotes

I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

George Gaynes

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• It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Pretty
  • Fashion
  • Proud

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Earth

• I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
  • Become

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Blue

• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Business
  • Relationship

• Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Thinking
  • New York
  • Everyone

• Days are long when you're filming, so I catch up on sleep during breaks to avoid looking tired.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Up
  • Long
  • Sleep

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Think

• I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Fun
  • Road
  • Silence

• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Matter

• A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Victory

• I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • People
  • Law

• The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Important
  • Business
  • War

• I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • Believer
  • Rarely

• New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Silence

• The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Kids
  • Decision

• In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Knowledge

• Let not what thou canst not prevent, though it be the ruin of thy home or country, draw thee from thy proper work.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Work
  • Country
  • Home

• Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hand
  • Before
  • Another

• I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

  

  George Gaynes