Garry Shandling Quotes
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'
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The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
