No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
~By Frank Pittman ~
I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
~By David Zucker ~
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
~By David Milne ~
People don't have fun making music all the time.
~By Ken Hill ~
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Fun is good.
~By Dr. Seuss ~
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
~By Peter Sellers ~
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
~By James Dyson ~
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
~By David Antin ~
I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
~By Carlton Fisk ~
To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
~By Scott Caan ~
I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
~By Dane Cook ~
That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
~By Jimmy Kimmel ~
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.
~By Tim McGraw ~
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
~By Michael Jordan ~
I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
~By Rob Walton ~
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.
~By John Amery ~
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
~By Aaron Spelling ~
The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?
~By Mick Ralphs ~
You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.
~By James Pinckney Miller ~
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
~By Lucian Freud ~
At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
~By Diane Cilento ~
I have fun at work.
~By Carol Kane ~
It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.
~By Austin Peck ~
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
~By Arlen Specter ~
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
~By Jerry Della Femina ~
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
~By Ang Lee ~
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
~By Julie Benz ~
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
~By Richard Ernst ~
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
~By Sylvia Ashton-Warner ~
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
~By Debra Messing ~
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
~By Howie Carr ~
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
~By Fernand Braudel ~
As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.
~By Tim Bishop ~
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.
~By James Denton ~
Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.
~By Dave Blood ~
There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
~By Steve Largent ~
I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.
~By Catherine Crier ~
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
~By Joel Coen ~
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
~By Alice James ~
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
~By Ralph Nader ~
It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
~By Gary Coleman ~
Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
~By Steve Buyer ~
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
~By Tim Robbins ~
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
~By Billie Jean King ~
All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
~By Charles Vest ~
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
~By Jenny McCarthy ~
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.
~By Peter Krause ~
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
~By Neve Campbell ~
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can exhale and chill out. You have to breathe through life, man. Have fun.
~By Lee Haney ~
Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
~By Joan Jett ~
I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
~By Jana Novotna ~
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
~By Andy Warhol ~
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
~By George W. Bush ~
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
~By Vito Fossella ~
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
~By Ruby Wax ~
You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?
~By Rick Perry ~
Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.
~By Jim Cole ~
Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.
~By Roger Wicker ~
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
~By Sean Hayes ~
I suppose they're like the I.R.S. You move once and they never send you your refund check.
~By Preston Sturges ~
I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
~By Tadao Ando ~
It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
~By Willie Stargell ~
I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.
~By Blu Cantrell ~
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.
~By Joe Viterelli ~
There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.
~By Levon Helm ~
Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
~By Bill Walton ~
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
~By Donatella Versace ~
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