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 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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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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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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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.
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I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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.
