Eric Stonestreet Quotes
My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?
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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.
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I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia and now these young guys have come through our development system and are making their way into the national team.
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I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.
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My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.
