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" I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.' "
Ted Danson
Grateful
Forever
Cheers
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" I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar. "
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" We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. "
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" When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. "
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" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "
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Actor
" I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts. "
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" If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. "
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" I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. "
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" The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. "
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Best
Slow
Political
" How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. "
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Question
Life
Important
" We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. "
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Organization
Environmental
Together
" I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. "
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People
You
Compromise
" Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. "
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Recycling
Talking
" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "
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Friend
Someone
Me
" I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. "
Ted Danson
Happy
Am
Spend
" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "
Ted Danson
Energy
Lot
Lose
" You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear. "
Ted Danson
Survive
Always
Animals
" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "
Ted Danson
Goes
Day
Embarrassing
" My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years. "
Ted Danson
Growing Up
Life
My Life
" 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley. "
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First
Long
Me
" Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. "
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Humor
People
Serious
" I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff. "
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You
Alive
Job
" I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him. "
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Become
Try
Stay
" I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it. "
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Game
You
Matter
" Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. "
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Human
Balance
Changing
" I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water. "
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Want
Book
Writing
" I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy. "
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Looking
Week
Ocean
" California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world. "
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Shark
World
California
" We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work. "
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Will
Together
Everyone
" My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. "
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You
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" You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid. "
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Then
Right
Stupid