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Tom Lister, Jr. Quotes

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

Tom Lister, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1958

Topics

Family You Try Your Please Them

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I Am Know Always Just Who Lyrics

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

Life Parents Rest My Life Want Butt

Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows.

Challenges Long Capital Market Large

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Wind Sails Nothing Out Take Ten

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Princess Go Meet Shy Princess Diana

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.

Melissa McCarthy

Crazy Saying Someone Earth Like

I like it when a man puts thought into the kind of restaurant we're going to. That doesn't mean it needs to be fancy - some of the best meals of my life have been having a taco on a street corner.

Life Best Man Thought Restaurant

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

Michael O'Donoghue

You Sometimes Order Cruel Even

Every field piece I did on 'The Daily Show' was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have - in this case, a real person - into said part.

Daily Character Story You Person

Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.

Good Best Swimming Slow Back Missed

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Live War People World Through Who

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

Love Culture America You Know Over

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