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Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Everything that gets born dies.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.