Hal Sparks Quotes
If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.
