Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debra Messing

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

Debra Messing

Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.

Debra Messing

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

Debra Messing

I know there must be something I should explore about that with my therapist.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dean Stockwell

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

Dean Stockwell

There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.

Dean Rusk

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Dean Rusk

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Dean Rusk

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Wareham

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.

Dean Wareham

My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Dean Winters

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

Dean Ornish

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

Dean Ornish

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

Dean Ornish

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.

Dean Ornish

I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

Dean Ornish

We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.

Dean Smith

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

Dean Smith

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

Dean Smith

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Dean Smith

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

Dean Smith

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dean Kamen

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Dean Kamen

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

Dean Kamen

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

Dean Kamen

I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dean Kamen

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.