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.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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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.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
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It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
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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.
