Dan Gelber Quotes

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

Dan Gelber

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DogDayBetterEvery DayHimSame

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Jo Stafford

NothingPayOutContractArtists

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

John Irving

PeopleSympathyInterestingYouWho

I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go dead and conk out. And if you tread on the lead going to the pedal, something would always go wrong. Or some crazy kid would pull the lead out just at the moment when you're about to do your big number on it.

Angus Young

MomentFoolCrazyYouToo MuchGo

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Stand Watie

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I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

Sophia Bush

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What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

Sigmar Gabriel

FreedomSocialismPresentLossWrong

It is over with; I am in the history books.

Michael Moorer

HistoryI AmOverBooksAm

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

Dhani Jones

SayWantClassicTopOverOut

My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.

Chris Liddell

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Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.

Brendan Gleeson

TimeFunPeopleCareWorryYou

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Britt Robertson

ChildrenTimeActorFirstStage

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.

Winnie Byanyima

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