Dana Carvey Quotes
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.
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I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.
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Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.
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I'm more of a people pleaser.
