Gerry Dee Quotes
I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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My father had very little formal education.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
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Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.
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With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both.
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Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.
