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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.


Ted Sarandos

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TED LANGE I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.
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TED LANGE I talk to the universe all the time.
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TED KOPPEL I have the necessary lack of tact.
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TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
TED DEKKER Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
TED DANSON Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit...
TED DANSON We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick...
TED DANSON We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol...
TED DANSON If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot...
TED DANSON When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
TED DANSON 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
TED DANSON I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
TED DANSON The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve...
TED DANSON Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i...
TED DANSON We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons...
TED DANSON We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi...
TED DANSON Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them...
TED DANSON The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends up...
TED DANSON You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
TED DANSON Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding...
TED DANSON The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it...
TED DANSON Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but...
TED DANSON I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ...
TED CRUZ When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meani...
TED CRUZ The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
TED CRUZ We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl...
TED CRUZ