Ted Danson Quotes
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
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The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
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When you're coming up with new material, it's not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it's working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You're constantly rebuilding.
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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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Let's make Holberton one of the biggest schools on the face of the planet.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
