Rhea Perlman quote: "Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids."

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a p...
RHEA PERLMAN

Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies f...
RHEA PERLMAN

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a ...
RHEA PERLMAN

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i...
RHEA 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

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
CAROLINE RHEA

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
CAROLINE RHEA

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.
CAROLINE RHEA

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.
CAROLINE RHEA

because it always tells you the truth.
CAROLINE RHEA

It can spread through local spread, through blood circulation, and through the lymphatic system.
RHEA ROSA

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy ...
CAROLINE RHEA

Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That'...
CAROLINE RHEA

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been a...
CAROLINE RHEA

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at S...
CAROLINE RHEA

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd h...
CAROLINE RHEA

I couldn't believe it. I don't think I've ever felt so good after finishing a race. To finish first ...
LAUREN RHEA

It was very close, to the point where I was skipping practice days at a time. When you skip four day...
LAUREN RHEA

No matter how well we eat, sleep, or take care of ourselves, we can always be vulnerable to spinal c...
JOE RHEA

No other state has such an initiative. Come November, when this initiative becomes hot in the news, ...
JOE RHEA

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.
CAROLINE RHEA

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burn...
CAROLINE RHEA

Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It ...
CAROLINE RHEA

I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. So...
CAROLINE RHEA

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.
CAROLINE RHEA

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
CAROLINE RHEA

I'll be a host for life!
CAROLINE RHEA

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the ...
CAROLINE RHEA

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my ...
CAROLINE RHEA

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the person...
CAROLINE RHEA

I always wanted to film 'Biggest Loser' in Hawaii. We could call it, 'Come on I wanna we...
CAROLINE RHEA

I'm so into momminess.
CAROLINE RHEA

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

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 say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger...
ITZHAK 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

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

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into anoth...
RON PERLMAN

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absol...
ITZHAK 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

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You&...
RON 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

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is comi...
RON PERLMAN

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.
ITZHAK 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

I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievem...
ITZHAK 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

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

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

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin...
RON 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'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

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

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.
RON 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

The two permanent thing in this world are change and responsibility as a parent.In 1 second, we coul...
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