Dan Castellaneta Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.
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When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed - for instance, lending standards.
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Son, this is the only time I'm ever gonna say this. It is not okay to lose.
