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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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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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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As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
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I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.
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Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
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What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
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I'm more of a people pleaser.
