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" 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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" 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

" Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers. "

" One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever. "

Ted Danson

Myself

Thought

" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. "

" I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention. "

" I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.' "

" I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work. "

" My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work. "

" To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life. "

" We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet. "

" Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends. "

" 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. "

" I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done. "

" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "

Ted Danson

Actor

" I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you. "

" 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. "

" To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. "

" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "

Ted Danson

Friend

Someone

" I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. "

" 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. "

" The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. "

Ted Danson

Pressure

Reason

" I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it. "

" 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. "

" We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. "

" I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. "

" Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. "

" 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. "

" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "