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Alan Thicke Quotes

I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: canadian
Birth: March 1, 1947 - December 13, 2016

Topics

Me Who Relative Obscurity Norman

I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing.

Moment Me Dinner Night Looking

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

Father Mother Best Me Quit Strive

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Great Mind Me Ideas Writing Think

This idea that in America you can be anyone you want - you can reinvent yourself. Well, I think that the Internet has maybe taken that kind of American idea and has democratized it for the world.

Yourself World Think American You

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

Roads Balance Parents Bridges View

We need more missionaries - more worthy missionaries.

Russell M. Nelson

More Need Worthy Missionaries

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld

Acting Enemy Living Intelligent Us

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

I Am People Me Think Short Divorce

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Polanyi

Acceptance Words Language Belief Use

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

Growing Up Growing Jacket Bench Up

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

Chris Hemsworth

Good Yourself Hard Audience Pretty

For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

Cards Wall Never Knowing Office Out

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