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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. "
Ted Danson
Then
Right
Stupid
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" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "
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" 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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" My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months. "
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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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" 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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" My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys. "
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" One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. "
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" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "
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" When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them. "
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" The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals. "
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" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "
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" 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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" You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.' "
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" To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. "
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" My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. "
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" 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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" I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. "
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" One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor. "
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" I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill. "
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" If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. "
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" 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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" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "
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" I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. "
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" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "
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" I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified. "
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" 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. "
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