Gavin MacLeod Quotes

We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Desire
  • Single
  • Hand

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Alone

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Men
  • Mistake

• I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Acting
  • Looks
  • Get

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • God
  • Cold

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Nature
  • Gods
  • Expressive

• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Friendship
  • Gambling
  • Aspirations

• I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.

  

  Seth Meyers
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Sugar

• Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Beautiful
  • Pain

• My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • America
  • Hope

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Wife