Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late ...
RON PERLMAN I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappea...
RON PERLMAN I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overvie...
RON PERLMAN Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into anoth...
RON PERLMAN Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You&...
RON PERLMAN I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is comi...
RON PERLMAN I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels a...
RON PERLMAN I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.
RON PERLMAN war...war never changes
RON PERLMAN I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had ...
RON PERLMAN I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of ...
RON PERLMAN I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no human...
RON PERLMAN The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
RON PERLMAN You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put m...
RON PERLMAN I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's kee...
RON PERLMAN I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
RON PERLMAN Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.
RON PERLMAN In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin...
RON PERLMAN I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest a...
RON PERLMAN I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man ...
RON PERLMAN In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the door...
ITZHAK PERLMAN A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing...
ITZHAK PERLMAN The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't...
ITZHAK PERLMAN The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. The...
ITZHAK PERLMAN A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, m...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason no...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.
ITZHAK PERLMAN I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Trust your ability!
ITZHAK PERLMAN Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
ITZHAK PERLMAN As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself.
ITZHAK PERLMAN The most important thing to do is really listen.
ITZHAK PERLMAN For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you e...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportuni...
ITZHAK PERLMAN That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
ITZHAK PERLMAN I have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
ITZHAK PERLMAN My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
ITZHAK PERLMAN Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently m...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just pra...
ITZHAK PERLMAN It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can ...
ITZHAK PERLMAN If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violi...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Every person with a disability is an individual.
ITZHAK PERLMAN You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play...
ITZHAK PERLMAN When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie H...
ITZHAK PERLMAN The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a p...
RHEA PERLMAN I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absol...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies f...
RHEA PERLMAN This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I'm a mushroom freak. I make a mushroom soup where I use maybe six or seven varieties, not just ...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone ...
ELLIOT PERLMAN To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing ...
ITZHAK PERLMAN The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other...
ITZHAK PERLMAN If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different so...
ITZHAK PERLMAN When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played ...
ITZHAK PERLMAN The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how cl...
ELLIOT PERLMAN Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not...
RHEA PERLMAN I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.
ITZHAK PERLMAN It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a ...
RHEA PERLMAN I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievem...
ITZHAK PERLMAN Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i...
RHEA PERLMAN I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lectu...
ELLIOT PERLMAN We are not worried about service being shut down. We have spoken to executives at RIM and feel comfo...
BETH PERLMAN We have been testing [Microsoft's] Windows mobile devices for some time. We have these devices ready...
BETH PERLMAN There is this loophole, which is strange.
JACKIE PERLMAN They were very close and knew each other extremely well and wanted to spend their retirement years t...
ELI PERLMAN There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.
ITZHAK PERLMAN I once cashed out a bunch of savings bonds in the middle of the year and forgot about them. Then I g...
JACKIE PERLMAN You can't have steady increases every year. At some point, you're going to plateau.
HEIDI PERLMAN My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character ev...
RHEA PERLMAN Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about ...
RHEA PERLMAN No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, whic...
RHEA PERLMAN It's difficult to get things to pay for themselves right out of the gate. It would take a while for ...
BRUCE PERLMAN We do want to get a maximum use out of everything we've got. These are the jewels in our city's crow...
BRUCE PERLMAN One of the things that is really needed in cultural services is somebody to look at the mayor's big ...
BRUCE PERLMAN I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chica...
ITZHAK PERLMAN We've been through a lot.
ELI PERLMAN They were retired people who worked all their lives. They were all very close friends some lifelong ...
ELI PERLMAN All their responsibilities were behind them.
ELI PERLMAN Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
ITZHAK PERLMAN Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this w...
ELLIOT PERLMAN Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came wea...
ELLIOT PERLMAN I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
ITZHAK PERLMAN I think her concern about the representation of her class as not accurate is certainly legitimate, ....
HARVEY PERLMAN I don't think one ought to dramatize this year as critical or anything else, ... We're rebuilding a ...
HARVEY PERLMAN Athletics gives us visibility and creates part of the excitement of the campus and makes Nebraska wh...
HARVEY PERLMAN They offered us Tommy Lee, they didn't offer us Snow White,
HARVEY PERLMAN Our admissions people tell us there is certainly a buzz about the university when you talk to high s...
HARVEY PERLMAN I thought the university came through very well, ... I think the comedy is a joke on Tommy and not a...
HARVEY PERLMAN They offered us Tommy Lee , they didn't offer us Snow White. ... Tommy Lee Goes to College.
HARVEY PERLMAN REAL Software focuses exclusively on the developer tools market. We understand the stress and concer...
GEOFF PERLMAN We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.
HEIDI PERLMAN We just don't know yet how many children are coming. That's really the big X-factor that we're waiti...
HEIDI PERLMAN We're a little bit perplexed about what they're doing, to be honest. We're trying to be reasonable a...
HEIDI PERLMAN The point of doing a Coordinate Program Review, which we do for every system in the state, is to hel...
HEIDI PERLMAN A day trader could have a couple thousand trades while even a more typical investor could still have...
JACKIE PERLMAN The grandmother can't take the dependency exemption if the mother claims the child for the Earned-In...
JACKIE PERLMAN But don't just slap $10,000 of miscellaneous expenses on your return. You need to explain that you w...
JACKIE PERLMAN You'd be amazed at the kind of things people come in and think they can deduct. If you're not sure a...
JACKIE PERLMAN The home office deduction is more nuanced than people think.
JACKIE PERLMAN My recommendation is to start small. You'll be surprised by just how many things you can use your FS...
JACKIE PERLMAN If you're weary of the stock market you can still save in a 401(k). Just choose a more conservative ...
JACKIE PERLMAN The important thing to understand is there are certain things you can do. They may or may not help y...
JACKIE PERLMAN If you plan ahead and are conscious of taxes throughout the year, you'll save a lot of stress and po...
JACKIE PERLMAN They were very nice. It's so loud that it's a little hard to hear, so I just introduced them to my d...
ITZHAK PERLMAN He was a giant in this century, as a violinist, musician, personality within the musical world. He w...
ITZHAK PERLMAN I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. read...
ELLIOT PERLMAN I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote...
ELLIOT PERLMAN I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the ...
ELLIOT PERLMAN After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place yo...
ELLIOT PERLMAN I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call th...
ELLIOT PERLMAN Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this w...
ELLIOT PERLMAN [Marquette's] another one of those guys who hasn't had a tremendous amount of football experience, b...
LANCE PERLMAN Coming into a new system, and having to teach the kids a new system takes a while to execute.
LANCE PERLMAN We're a young ball club. The biggest thing we've been trying to get our kids to do is to fight throu...
LANCE PERLMAN There is a buzz about Colorado skiing and the snow conditions that we haven't seen in years.
ROB PERLMAN If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
ITZHAK PERLMAN Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have l...
ITZHAK PERLMAN One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.
RON ESTES People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo...
RON WHITE My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
RON COOPER I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
RON WHITE The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant....
RON WHITE I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
RON WHITE When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITE I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretch...
RON WHITE I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
RON WHITE I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
RON WHITE There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE The next time you have a thought... let it go.
RON WHITE I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITE Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITE When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drain...
RON WHITE I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as th...
RON WHITE Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
RON WHITE I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITE You can't fix stupid.
RON WHITE I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply...
RON WHITE I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
RON WHITE How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi...
RON REAGAN If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there wo...
RON JOHNSON The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to ...
RON KIND I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
RON CHERNOW I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dicti...
RON RASH I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and princ...
RON DESANTIS I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of ...
RON WOOD A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a lo...
RON CHERNOW Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current s...
RON CHERNOW Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whol...
RON CHERNOW As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in sto...
RON CHERNOW As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun...
RON CHERNOW The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. The...
RON CHERNOW Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of ma...
RON PAUL Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.
RON BLOMBERG Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki...
RON FOURNIER If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spen...
RON JOHNSON I am very grateful to Jeb Bush for his support of my candidacy.
RON DESANTIS Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days follow...
RON FOURNIER When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
RON ZIEGLER You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buyin...
RON CHERNOW I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ...
RON WOOD Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can...
RON JAWORSKI It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated ...
RON FOURNIER President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged...
RON FOURNIER I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vin...
RON HOWARD A small profit it better than a big loss
RON RASH Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authenti...
RON FOURNIER Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You s...
RON EGLASH You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.
RON TODD