Harry Shearer Quotes
Here's a guy Richard Nixon who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
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Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.
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Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisure time that comes with the pursuit of poetry. Instead, this is ceremony. This is a highly charged way to create a sacred space that isn't necessarily about God, but is about human experience at its most profound levels - whether that's love or grief, separation, or homeland. All are altered states.
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Here's a guy Richard Nixon who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
