Steve Schirripa Quotes

#1. 'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

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#2. With girls, there's an insecurity that starts early on. It hangs around them, like some annoying kid from down the block who won't take the hint and go home when dinnertime comes. And moms are usually not great at giving their daughters confidence.

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#3. I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

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#4. Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

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#5. People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

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#6. Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

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#7. David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

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#8. When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'

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#9. So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

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#10. If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

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#11. I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

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#12. I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

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#13. Nobody knows what will happen after five minutes later! Strangely, this ambiguity makes life very interesting!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

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#15. Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.

Amit Kalantri

#16. The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

Keeley Hawes

#17. Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

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#18. It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

Tom Robbins

#19. I'm not big with negotiating.

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#20. I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

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#21. She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

Ella Fitzgerald

#22. So you do have some claws after all!' (Wyea)
'You have no idea,' Ren responded and charged.

Colleen Houck

#23. Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

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#24. Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

Madame De Pompadour

#25. Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

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#26. Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

David Brin

#27. I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

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#28. Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Thomas Carlyle

#29. Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

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#30. There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.

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#31. In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

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#32. A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Arthur Golden