Dan Aykroyd quote: "I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it."

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $...
DAN AYKROYD

People love gentle larceny.
DAN AYKROYD

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake Di...
DAN AYKROYD

We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and w...
DAN AYKROYD

He was a heavy-metal fan.
DAN AYKROYD

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
DAN AYKROYD

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
DAN AYKROYD

I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.
DAN AYKROYD

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPh...
DAN AYKROYD

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
DAN AYKROYD

I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happ...
DAN AYKROYD

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
DAN AYKROYD

The city of Chicago was a character in the movie, as depicted by Landis and I think all of us, in th...
DAN AYKROYD

I do want to say a special hello to my neighbor Mr. Erskine. But you have to be a Flames fan in Calg...
DAN AYKROYD

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules
DAN AYKROYD

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
DAN AYKROYD

I wrote many things for and with John. I know this is one assignment he'd rather I didn't have to ta...
DAN AYKROYD

I do want to say a special hello to my neighbor Mr. Erskine. But you have to be a Flames fan in Calg...
DAN AYKROYD

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at nig...
DAN AYKROYD

Jane, you ignorant slut.
DAN AYKROYD

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
DAN AYKROYD

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a...
DAN AYKROYD

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV s...
DAN AYKROYD

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the surviv...
DAN AYKROYD

It's cool to come to a town that is an American institution, that's always been a fun place, ... It'...
DAN AYKROYD

The city of Chicago was a character in the movie, as depicted by Landis and I think all of us, in th...
DAN AYKROYD

I'd make a bad preacher.
DAN AYKROYD

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.
DAN AYKROYD

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at nig...
DAN AYKROYD

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
DAN AYKROYD

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
DAN AYKROYD

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
DAN AYKROYD

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
DAN AYKROYD

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Pe...
DAN AYKROYD

I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and ...
DAN AYKROYD

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
DAN AYKROYD

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
DAN AYKROYD

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
DAN AYKROYD

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one rac...
DAN AYKROYD

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did...
DAN AYKROYD

So often you don't even notice it.
DAN AYKROYD

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of...
DAN AYKROYD

It's possible, if the economics are right, ... When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of f...
DAN AYKROYD

I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,'
DAN AYKROYD

This is just the beginning, ... Obviously we're going to have the House of Blues Foundation involved...
DAN AYKROYD

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter ...
DAN AYKROYD

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
DAN AYKROYD

Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
DAN AYKROYD

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as...
DAN AYKROYD

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-bet...
DAN AYKROYD

Greetings and death to our enemies.
DAN AYKROYD

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I w...
DAN AYKROYD

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the ...
DAN AYKROYD

Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
DAN AYKROYD

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair sli...
DAN AYKROYD

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian ...
DAN AYKROYD

It's cool to come to a town that is an American institution, that's always been a fun place, ... It'...
DAN AYKROYD

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules
DAN AYKROYD

We're on a mission from God,
DAN AYKROYD

Bill would try anything - and get away with anything. He always looked as if he didn't particularly ...
DAN AYKROYD

So often you don't even notice it.
DAN AYKROYD

We're on a mission from God,
DAN AYKROYD

Bill would try anything - and get away with anything. He always looked as if he didn't particularly ...
DAN AYKROYD

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
DAN AYKROYD

There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. ...
DAN AYKROYD

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
DAN AYKROYD

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarter...
DAN AYKROYD

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on vid...
DAN AYKROYD

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...
DAN MILLMAN

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
DAN GLICKMAN

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be r...
DAN RATHER

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
DAN HARMON

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experimen...
DAN PALLOTTA

Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we n...
DAN COATS

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preser...
DAN LIPINSKI

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised&...
DAN GILROY

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the ani...
DAN CASTELLANETA

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS

I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and so...
DAN FEUERRIEGEL

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
DAN MILLMAN

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote...
DAN QUAYLE

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you li...
DAN MILLMAN

For a person born and raised into a world where information was always at hand, communication with a...
DAN SIMMONS

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.
DAN KENNEDY

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monda...
DAN SALOMON

How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you...
DAN REILAND

Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask...
DAN QUAYLE

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].
DAN QUAYLE

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not ...
DAN QUAYLE

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
DAN QUAYLE

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at...
DAN RATHER

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
DAN QUAYLE

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)
DAN ARIELY

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
DAN BROWN

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...
DAN MILLMAN

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But w...
DAN QUAYLE

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
DAN QUAYLE

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answ...
DAN QUAYLE

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
DAN QUAYLE

Public speaking is very easy.
DAN QUAYLE

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
DAN QUAYLE

My fellow astronauts...
DAN QUAYLE

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on histor...
DAN QUAYLE

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news
DAN BROWN

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and wa...
DAN QUAYLE

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
DAN KAMINSKY

I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
DAN GILBERT

But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
DAN WHELDON

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
DAN WEBSTER

As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Re...
DAN WEBSTER

You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we ca...
DAN WEBSTER

My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take...
DAN WEBSTER

I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantl...
DAN WEBSTER

Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
DAN WEBSTER

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in ...
DAN WAKEFIELD

I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to th...
DAN STEVENS

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anythi...
DAN STEVENS

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I...
DAN STEVENS

When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilit...
DAN ROSENSWEIG

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, n...
DAN ROSENSWEIG

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
DAN REYNOLDS

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated socie...
DAN RATHER

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan politic...
DAN RATHER

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home...
DAN QUISENBERRY

I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.
DAN QUINN

I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
DAN QUINN

When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
DAN QUINN

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
DAN QUINN

I'm not really a horror movie fan.
DAN SCANLON

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is o...
DAN SCANLON

There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A ...
DAN SCANLON

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamwork...
DAN SCANLON

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
DAN SCANLON

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl...
DAN SAVAGE

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big c...
DAN SAVAGE

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
DAN SAVAGE

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
DAN SAVAGE

Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
DAN ROSENSWEIG

What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, ve...
DAN ROSENSWEIG

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People wa...
DAN STEVENS

Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
DAN SHECHTMAN

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fai...
DAN SHECHTMAN

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just la...
DAN SHECHTMAN

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing ...
DAN SHECHTMAN

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are l...
DAN SHECHTMAN

I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is op...
DAN SHECHTMAN

Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
DAN SHECHTMAN

At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward te...
DAN SCANLON

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, si...
DAN CASTELLANETA

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
DAN CASTELLANETA

Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don...
DAN CARTER

I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives t...
DAN CARTER

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instea...
DAN BUETTNER

We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our...
DAN BUETTNER

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived...
DAN BUETTNER

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, lea...
DAN BUETTNER

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
DAN BUETTNER

Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
DAN BUETTNER

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebrat...
DAN BUETTNER

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical a...
DAN BUETTNER

I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I h...
DAN BUCATINSKY

I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormou...
DAN BROWN

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don&...
DAN BROWN

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart ...
DAN BROWN

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
DAN BROWN

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tensio...
DAN BROWN

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still f...
DAN BROWN

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and vill...
DAN BROWN

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.
DAN FARMER

I'm bisexual.
DAN FARMER

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters...
DAN DECARLO

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
DAN DECARLO

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
DAN DECARLO

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in ...
DAN DECARLO

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
DAN DECARLO

I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
DAN DEACON

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the ...
DAN DEACON

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
DAN DEACON

I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.
DAN DEACON

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spiri...
DAN COLEN

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they ...
DAN COLEN

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's hi...
DAN COLEN

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers b...
DAN COLEN

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy...
DAN COLEN

I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
DAN COATS

Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation's cultures and el...
DAN COATS

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
DAN COATS

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Nort...
DAN CHAON

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also i...
DAN CHAON

You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if...
DAN LEVITAN

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficie...
DAN KILDEE

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer netwo...
DAN KAMINSKY

The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be...
DAN KAMINSKY

I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.
DAN KAMINSKY

It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was...
DAN HILL

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
DAN HICKS

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t...
DAN HICKS

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS

I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

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