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.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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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.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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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.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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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.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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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.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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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.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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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.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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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.
