Tim Sam quote: "The program was in disarray when I took over. That?s the one thing I?m most proud of; I feel like I put a positive stamp on this program. I?m not turning it over to someone else in disarray. It is in very good shape, and it?s only going to get better."

He was a handful for us. We threw three or four different guys at him, and none of them did a great ...
TIM SAM

My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM

It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who s...
TIM

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON

Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN

I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN

If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI

The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES

You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES

I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES

I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON

The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON

I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON

I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON

Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON

I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON

Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON

My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON

You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN

Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN

I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN

Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN

In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN

Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN

Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN

Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
SAM KEAN

Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN

Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN

One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN

Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN

The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
SAM KEAN

The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN

The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN

Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN

Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN

I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN

Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN

I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
SAM HUNTINGTON

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
SAM HUNTINGTON

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
SAM HUNTINGTON

In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t...
SAM HUNTINGTON

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
SAM HUNTINGTON

I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
SAM HUNTINGTON

I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di...
SAM HUNT

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
SAM HUNT

The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard yo...
SAM HUNT

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings...
SAM HUNT

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be ...
SAM HUNT

I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I a...
SAM HUNT

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
SAM HUNT

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
SAM HUNT

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard w...
SAM HUNT

People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
SAM HUNT

I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
SAM HUNT

It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
SAM HUNT

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country arti...
SAM HUNT

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the w...
SAM HUNT

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
SAM HUNT

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after...
SAM HUNT

I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain sty...
SAM HUNT

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - ...
SAM HUNT

I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. ...
SAM HUNT

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that ...
SAM HUNT

New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
SAM HUNT

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be d...
SAM HUNT

I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel th...
SAM HUNT

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
SAM HUNT

Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to pro...
SAM HOUSTON

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a ...
SAM HOUSTON

The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and...
SAM HOUSTON

We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by ...
SAM HOUSTON

Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy ...
SAM HOUSTON

Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws,...
SAM HOUSTON

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte...
SAM HOUSTON

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant ...
SAM HOUSTON

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in fa...
SAM HOUSTON

The program was in disarray when I took over. That?s the one thing I?m most proud of; I feel like I put a positive stamp on this program. I?m not turning it over to someone else in disarray. It is in very good shape, and it?s only going to get better.

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The program was in disarray when I took over. That?s the one thing I?m most proud of; I feel like I put a positive stamp on this program. I?m not turning it over to someone else in disarray. It is in very good shape, and it?s only going to get better.

Tim Sam

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