Dean Quotes

• As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

  Red Smith

  Baseball, Texas, Firsts

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• I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

  Jimmy Dean

  Play, People, Benefits

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• Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

  Gwen Ifill

  Starting Over, Office, Unhappy

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• Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Successful, People

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• Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  World, Young, Jimmy

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

  Robert Scheer

  Honest, Hung

  "'Nothing Prepared Me for Bush'". Interview with Onnesha Roychoudhuri, www.alternet.org. April 27, 2006.

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• A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

  Maureen McCormick

  Men, World, Way

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• A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

  Gwen Ifill

  Apology, Upset, Littles

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.

  Peter Gallagher

  Guy, Style, Television

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• Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

  Tommy Rettig

  Beach, Party, School

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• My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Dad, School

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• I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

  Casper Van Dien

  Destiny, Race, Film

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• I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

  Learned Hand

  Agreement, Way, Counting

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

  Tab Hunter

  Battle, Roles, Tests

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• Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, Majority, Charismatic

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

  Glenn Frey

  Eagles, Forever, Reunion

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• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hero, Dirty, Naughty

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• I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

  John Travolta

  Thinking, Icons, Pops

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• I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Men, Alcohol, Next

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• In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

  Peter Gallagher

  Song, Singing, Family And Friends

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• Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

  Joe Mantegna

  Hero, My Hero

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• I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

  Ville Valo

  Fans, Four, Packs

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• It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

  Terence Stamp

  Movie, Beauty, Thinking

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• Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

  Sydney Smith

  Together, Done, Canon

  On a proposal to surround St Paul's with a wooden pavement, in H. Pearson 'The Smith of Smiths' (1934) ch. 10, p. 237

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