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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never met my Uncle Jack. My mom was six months pregnant with me when he died. But I knew his wife and two kids very well.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.
- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a lot of the successes in my life have come down to the Super Mario Effect, and while framing challenges like this has worked for me, of course, results may vary.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020