Dan Povenmire Quotes

We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny

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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
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  • Question
  • Band

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • Why
  • Know

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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  • Science
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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  

  Mao Zedong
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  • Stick

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
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  • Trying

• Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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  • Experience
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• The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

  

  Callie Thorne
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  • Up
  • Trying

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
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• It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• These days, I'm always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football for 90 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I'm always open to trying out new things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • New Things

• I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

  

  Earl King
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• Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
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• I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

  

  Billy Koch
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• Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

  

  Deborah Bull
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  • Work

• We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

  

  Brené Brown
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  • Connection

• Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

  

  Bjork
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  • Football
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• My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Children
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  • True

• If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

  

  Caterina Fake
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• I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

  

  King Bach
  • People
  • School
  • Beginning

• My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

  

  Emma Thompson

• We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny

  

  Dan Povenmire
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