Brian Baumgartner Quotes

#1. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

Kirstin Chen

#2. I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear. I guess that's why I'm so quiet and such a good whisperer,

Paul Beatty

#3. I come from straight theater.

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#4. I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.

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#5. For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.

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#6. Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

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#7. and was now bending over the golden effigy of a bat, perhaps Zotz, the Underworld god.

Deborah Jackson

#8. The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

#9. The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

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#10. I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

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#11. I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now

Jack Goldstone

#12. Freedom is fragile.

Bryant McGill

#13. A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply fineness of nature.

John Ruskin

#14. I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

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#15. But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but neither rock nor river would be to blame.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.

Anita Brookner

#17. Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

Jim Lovell

#18. It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Brian Baumgartner

#19. The book is man's best invention so far.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#20. For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.

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