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NEIL FLYNN And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woma...
MARY TYLER MOORE As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
BONNIE HUNT As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.
AUBREY DE GREY Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
VICKI LAWRENCE Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mi...
HOWARD FINSTER There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.
SUZANNE SOMERS I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show...
TED DANSON I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart b...
RITA MORENO There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm ...
HEATH LEDGER 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun jo...
MIKE SCULLY Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that'...
TOM PETTY As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac...
HERBIE HANCOCK As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
MARK WAHLBERG 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life...
DICK VAN DYKE As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN When the media's attacking me, when the establishment Republicans are attacking me and the Democ...
PAUL BROUN As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
DONALD TRUMP I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofba...
DUFF GOLDMAN When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like...
JEFFREY KLARIK As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo...
SINEAD O'CONNOR I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any...
QUEEN LATIFAH I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, whic...
NATALIE DORMER As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhyth...
DIMEBAG DARRELL Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
HELEN REDDY I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. ...
MEGAN FOX As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. ...
LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins&#...
WILLA HOLLAND I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m...
NORAH JONES As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play an...
LES PAUL I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dea...
GEORGE HARRISON As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo...
SINEAD O'CONNOR James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty f...
BILLY CORGAN As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o...
ROMAN REIGNS Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but al...
DOUGLAS WOOD As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fal...
SHANIA TWAIN You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.
LEWIS BLACK The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
PAUL WATSON I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' gir...
SIENNA MILLER I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult fi...
ORLANDO BLOOM I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denominat...
RAY CHARLES The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s...
VIKRAM SETH As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western worl...
CAITLIN MORAN As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, s...
MOSE ALLISON As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the...
SYLVESTER MCCOY As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm...
GIL SCOTT-HERON There?s nothing, as far as I?m concerned, that?s off the table.
DAVID LANEY I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's...
CLAYTON MOORE As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviousl...
ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. ...
GLORIA GAYNOR Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's...
MARK MORRIS I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an in...
LAILA ALI There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and...
LAUREN CONRAD I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic....
ALICE HOFFMAN It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
PAT ROBERTSON I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I...
BILL MEDLEY Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun.
JERROD CARMICHAEL You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going t...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
TIGER WOODS I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as...
ADAM RAYNER As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person n...
RACHEL NICHOLS I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular cul...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm ...
NORMAN REEDUS There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the a...
JON SECADA All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We wer...
DICK VAN DYKE I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example...
PALOMA FAITH There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even wi...
BILL COSBY I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm say...
DULE HILL I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that'...
BILL KREUTZMANN Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard...
RIC FLAIR As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always...
COLIN MOCHRIE As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike S...
WARREN G I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is conce...
DAVID MORRISSEY This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'...
MAXINE WATERS I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an Ame...
MAX MINGHELLA As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is a...
CHARLES DE LINT I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people ma...
HARRY STYLES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.
MEGYN KELLY I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'...
OLIVIA CULPO Sometimes I'm an ass, sometimes I'm sweet as peaches.
MILO VENTIMIGLIA As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last ...
MICKEY MANTLE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a g...
D'ANGELO I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I ex...
BILL CLEGG I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.
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Is surely home, and home, sweet home<...
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DICK VAN PATTEN I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
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WARNER DYKE We could do with beating Sunderland and getting Manchester United away.
GREG DYKE We would like to be away at Old Trafford, or at Chelsea if they beat Everton.
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VAN MORRISON I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN [In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON