Harry Shearer Quotes
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
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Determination that just won't quit - that's what it takes.
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I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.
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I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.
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In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
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God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.
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The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
