Harry Shearer Quotes

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

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• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Control
  • Enough

• You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Family
  • Business
  • California

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • You
  • Wants
  • Apple

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Think
  • Clear

• It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.'

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Purpose

• Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • People
  • Writing
  • America

• I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Learning

• I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

  

  Mary Pierce

• Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Attitude

• Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Pretty
  • Dark
  • Drama

• And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz

• There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • Excuses

• Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Imagination

• Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Done
  • Dream

• For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Habit
  • Meaningful
  • Heroin

• As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

  

  Jessica Springsteen
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Singing

• A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Lost
  • College

• My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Parents
  • Star
  • Actor