Dana Carvey Quotes

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

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• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Myself

• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Value
  • Books
  • Uncomfortable

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Never

• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Great
  • Way
  • Enjoy

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Think
  • Films
  • Dear

• I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Want
  • You
  • Kind

• I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.

  

  Don Ameche

• I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Wish

• Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Help
  • Road
  • Red

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Television