Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
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Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.
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There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.
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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
