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"One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche."


"If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky."


"We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet."


"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise."


"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."


"One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor."


"We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil."


"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."


"We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group."


"Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term."
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