Harry Shearer Quotes

My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah.

Harry Shearer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1943

Topics

FamilyVacationParentsDesertThree

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Meghan Markle

CouragePerspectiveStepWorldRest

I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.

John Paul Jones

ServiceHappyArmyPossibleNever

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

RulesExistenceEssencePrecedes

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

Amber Heard

ArtistWantCelebrity

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

Sturgill Simpson

Grateful

When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.

Tony Gilroy

I AmPeopleStartKnowProjectAm

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle

LoveArtLove IsWayFirstSee

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

Jonathan Haidt

PassionMenConflictBattleClearly

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

LiveHistoryUnderstandChangesTool

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Alice Temperley

WorldFashionBehaviorYouSeeJust

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

Winnie Byanyima

JusticeChampionSocietyYouHonest

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

Priyanka Chopra

LifeBestPeopleColdBelieveYear

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