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I have the nicest life in the world.
ALAN BEAN I found I have to stay painting.
ALAN BEAN I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
ALAN BEAN History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again...
ALAN BEAN Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
ALAN BEAN But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right...
ALAN BEAN They're always going to name people in social proximity to them.
ALAN BEAN It puts dangerous people back on the streets in exchange for dubious testimony.
ALAN BEAN I can remember walking on the moon.
ALAN BEAN We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
ALAN BEAN The moon is very rugged.
ALAN BEAN It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
ALAN BEAN I think everything depends on money.
ALAN BEAN But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that...
ALAN BEAN One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.
ALAN BEAN I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the tim...
ALAN BEAN

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
ALAN JAMES BEAN

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here a...
ROY BEAN

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
ROY BEAN

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin'...
ROY BEAN

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.
ROY BEAN

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
ROY BEAN

Working in a garden calms me down.
SEAN BEAN

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
MELISSA BEAN

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business commu...
MELISSA BEAN

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration hon...
MELISSA BEAN

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small bus...
MELISSA BEAN

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnesse...
MELISSA BEAN

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.
L.L. BEAN

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our ...
L.L. BEAN

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. No...
MELISSA BEAN

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with sno...
ROY BEAN

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just ge...
SEAN BEAN

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven i...
ROY BEAN

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they...
MELISSA BEAN

Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke.
SEAN BEAN

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to ...
MELISSA BEAN

I think Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond. I remember at the beginning, they were all saying, 'O...
SEAN BEAN

When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder d...
SEAN BEAN

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows ...
SEAN BEAN

At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my id...
SEAN BEAN

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
MELISSA BEAN It was two very good defensive teams.
BRUCE BEAN Coming off the bench to do that. . . . Not a bad night at all.
BRUCE BEAN That game could've gone either way.
BRUCE BEAN We've done exceptionally well (this year) with what we have.
BRUCE BEAN We knew (the Reapers) had to key on our running game because we have four powerful backs. That leave...
BON BEAN I'm taking it one game at a time. But our team goal is getting a ring, so in a way, I am (looking ah...
BON BEAN I got to get me one! I got to get me one!
BON BEAN He asked for that. Since the first one, he wasn't on me for that one, but after that one, they put h...
BON BEAN We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.
BON BEAN It got me excited and in the game. Then, there's no telling what can happen. It's all up in the air.
BON BEAN

Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. ...
SEAN BEAN

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein...
SEAN BEAN

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
MELISSA BEAN

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verifie...
MELISSA BEAN

I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for t...
SEAN BEAN

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
SEAN BEAN

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. T...
MELISSA BEAN

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services...
MELISSA BEAN

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel,...
SEAN BEAN

In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into...
SEAN BEAN

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.
SEAN BEAN

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way...
SEAN BEAN

I love doing just nothing in my free time.
SEAN BEAN

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I ...
SEAN BEAN

I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.
SEAN BEAN She began to come around. She remembered who everybody was and she came off the ventilator on her 43...
CHANTELL BEAN

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been a...
MELISSA BEAN Last year missing states wasn't that big a deal because I wasn't really going to do anything. To be ...
ALEX BEAN Stupid mistakes can be fixed. It stinks that it has to happen at the state meet in my senior year. B...
ALEX BEAN

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
SEAN BEAN

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how ...
SEAN BEAN Any deal that might be reached could come undone in conference.
MICHAEL BEAN

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no ...
SEAN BEAN We raised just over $180,000, and netted about $170,000.
ANDY BEAN Looking down, I think that they would be pleased with what they saw today.
ANDY BEAN The Mets made it very clear that they're intent on winning right now, and they told Billy that they ...
BEAN STRINGFELLOW The Mets made it very clear that they're intent on winning right now, and they told Billy that they ...
BEAN STRINGFELLOW I don't know what the magic words are. They wanted to come and talk about it, but I don't have any e...
BEAN STRINGFELLOW Everybody who put in their time, I think they saw that it was well-spent.
ANDY BEAN

For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I ...
SEAN BEAN

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a life...
SEAN BEAN

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'...
SEAN BEAN

That's the thing about Brits – they have the grounding in the classics and theatre, ... That's why...
SEAN BEAN

No. (Laughs) I saw it in the shop the other day with one of my daughters and I went, 'Wow, there's t...
SEAN BEAN

The idea is that Jodie Foster is with her child and she's going back to New York from Germany with h...
SEAN BEAN If, despite your best efforts, you just absolutely abhor what you are doing, then start looking arou...
JOHN BEAN

Obviously I'm delighted I'm a grandfather, but I guess it takes a little while to digest. Yo...
SEAN BEAN

I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different...
SEAN BEAN There's a lot of wheat out there that did come up, it just hasn't grown much, maybe it's thinned out...
BRENT BEAN

I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
SEAN BEAN

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really....
SEAN BEAN I am so excited. It's like one of the greatest female roles ever written. I am totally humbled and f...
SHOSHANA BEAN

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime fil...
SEAN BEAN

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.
SEAN BEAN We like to go into the season, into the growing season in May with a good four or five inches of goo...
BRENT BEAN Everyday that we do not get significant precipitation, the potential of the wheat crop from a grain ...
BRENT BEAN One of our goals is to be done this summer, possibly by July.
BRIAN BEAN He was such a major impact in the industry nationwide. Talk to anybody on any newspaper and they wil...
BRIAN BEAN I was surprised when they told me it was 35 years. I thought it was only 32.
BILL BEAN I wouldn't want to live in there. I'm used to more space. But that plan is a good opportunity for a ...
BILL BEAN They were looking around the area and really couldn't find suitable space.
BILL BEAN My name is Orson Bean. Harvard '47, Yale Nothing.
ORSON BEAN The trap is man's armored character structure and there's only one way out of it. It's not drugs and...
ORSON BEAN

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no exce...
SEAN BEAN

Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decid...
SEAN BEAN

I'm usually catching up on things I should have been doing while I was filming - a pile of mail and ...
SEAN BEAN

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
SEAN BEAN

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I wa...
SEAN BEAN

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filmi...
SEAN BEAN

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe departm...
SEAN BEAN

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is t...
SEAN BEAN

I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of ...
SEAN BEAN

There was good chemistry between us and I think we formed a good partnership together, with her bein...
SEAN BEAN

I've always admired the way she approaches her work. She seems to underplay things in such a believa...
SEAN BEAN

I'm the captain of one of these giant new planes, and 90 per cent of it takes place on board,
SEAN BEAN

They're always intense. I think everything is quite intense and that's the way it should be on thing...
SEAN BEAN

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
SEAN BEAN

Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but tha...
JEREMY BEAN

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transpa...
MELISSA BEAN

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was qu...
SEAN BEAN Us being a praying family, we just said ?they say one thing and God says another?. Grandmother began...
CHANTELL BEAN

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shapin...
SEAN BEAN

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetr...
SEAN BEAN

I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping o...
SEAN BEAN

And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we ...
MELISSA BEAN

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax retu...
MELISSA BEAN

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the ...
MELISSA BEAN

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workfor...
SEAN BEAN

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.
SEAN BEAN

I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.
SEAN BEAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

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