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Denis Leary Quotes

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

Denis Leary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1957

Topics

People Rest Strangers Firefighters

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Jesse Ball

Funny Time Beginning End Edge Kind

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

Jeremy Renner

Focus People Think Move On Want Try

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Mel Tillis

Music Church You Go Know Now

I'm super grateful that there wasn't social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It's bullying. It's the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don't even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they'll just kind of say it to you in passing.

Amy Schumer

Age Grateful Social Media Bullying

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

Stephen Harper

Back Canada Go Now Will Need

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

Sophie Swetchine

Friend Better Enemy Order Force He

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Mike Krieger

Focus Doing Right Things Instead

Establish and maintain good working relationships with co-workers. You don't have to be friends, but you do have to be friendly.

Judy Smith

Good Friends You Relationships

The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and often leaves school principals trembling with fear that is then passed down to teachers and librarians.

Judy Blume

Fear School Tradition Early Down

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

Diana Gabaldon

Character Eyes Job Transformation

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.

Chris Matthews

You Election Know Him Sense Would

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Bruce Springsteen

Change Success Good Fear Myself Me