Harry Shearer Quotes

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed.

Harry Shearer

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• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Me
  • Change

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• But everything of value about me is in my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Me
  • Value
  • Everything

• These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Universe
  • Risk

• That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Time

• It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Denature

• It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Struggle

• I would definitely return to 'Neverland' for a sequel if there was the chance again because we all got on so well, and I think it will be great.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Great

• I'm a good guy with a good heart, and I have good intentions.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Guy

• Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

  

  Colin Mochrie

• I did Scarsdale. I did Weight Watchers. I did Atkins.

  

  Trisha Yearwood

• I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • School

• I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, 'That's it. That's it. You've sunk too far!'

  

  Jean Smart
  • Remember
  • Horse

• “Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour, and where do they go?”

  

  Qurratulain Hyder
  • Perfect
  • Rains
  • Appeared

• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Work
  • Past

• My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Guy
  • ERA
  • Nixon