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  • Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean. -- Glenn Frey
  • Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. -- Sydney Smith
  • I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day. -- Ville Valo
  • When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary. -- Red Buttons
  • A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin. -- Maureen McCormick
  • Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same. -- Boris Becker
  • Dean Martin is one of my heroes. -- Joe Mantegna
  • Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come. -- Mercedes McCambridge
  • I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him. -- Ranbir Kapoor
  • I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet. -- Casper Van Dien
  • Howard Dean is narrowing the field of potential running mates. It's down to Mike Tyson or Bobby Knight. -- Craig Kilborn
  • I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin. -- Joe E. Lewis
  • I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. -- Elvis Presley
  • Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together. -- Tommy Rettig
  • Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything. -- Tom Jones
  • I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. -- Tab Hunter
  • There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody. -- Dane DeHaan
  • Chocolate is maybe my only vice. In particular, Godiva's champagne truffles. Or Dean & Deluca vanilla cupcakes. Just thinking about them - oh my gosh! -- Shilpa Shetty
  • I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman. -- Dane DeHaan
  • I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. -- Ansel Elgort
  • Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did. -- Michael Buble
  • In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. -- Peter Gallagher
  • Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. -- Bianca Jagger
  • Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes. -- Sheryl Crow
  • Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office. -- Gwen Ifill
  • Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies. -- Peter Gallagher
  • It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. -- Terence Stamp
  • A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit. -- Gwen Ifill
  • I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. -- John Travolta
  • Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous. -- John Varvatos
  • The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised. -- Justin Timberlake
  • To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. -- Patrick Swayze
  • My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority. -- Dylan McDermott
  • Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. -- Dean Koontz
  • I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean. -- Jimmy Dean
  • But she's ditched Dean! -- J. K. Rowling
  • James Dean was always a tortured soul. -- Ansel Elgort
  • Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed. -- John Lennon
  • Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness. -- Caitlin Kittredge
  • Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed. -- John Lennon
  • Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort. -- Al McGuire
  • When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him. -- Robert Scheer
  • James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. -- Andy Warhol
  • Dean is a doctor but he acts more like a postal worker! -- Jay Leno
  • Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead. -- James Wolcott
  • Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer. -- Steve Tibbetts
  • My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. -- Larry Bishop
  • Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday. -- Zell Miller
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  • Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy. -- John F. Kerry
  • I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research. -- Frederick Reines
  • I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc. -- Tommy Wiseau
  • My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon. -- Dick Van Patten
  • When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean. -- William Forsythe
  • My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us. -- LeAnn Rimes
  • The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation. -- Clay Shirky
  • I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like. -- Elvis Presley
  • Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. -- Lester B. Pearson
  • Howard Dean dropped out of the race today. At least he can't claim his voice wasn't heard. -- Jay Leno
  • Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.' -- Norman Lear
  • I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean. -- Jim Carrey
  • Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up. -- Mickey Mantle
  • I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album. -- Stephen Colbert
  • I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin -- Red Skelton
  • No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad. -- Roger Ebert
  • Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. -- Michael Cunningham
  • Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • A lot of people believe, including Howard Dean is looking at this, that the Democratic party demands a full-time chair. -- George Stephanopoulos
  • Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here's a little tip Howard - cut back on the Red Bull. -- David Letterman
  • James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why, -- Montgomery Clift
  • Have they even seen the Winchester boys? Sammy and Dean's existence proves there is a god and she is a woman. -- Darynda Jones
  • I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit. -- Mike Huckabee
  • The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic. -- Bill Hader
  • [Dean Martin] my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless. -- Michael Buble
  • But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean -- Jeff Mariotte
  • Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah! -- Jay Leno
  • Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television. -- Norman Lear
  • I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then. -- Matt Bomer
  • Theres a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody. -- Dane DeHaan
  • I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values. -- Richard Holbrooke
  • (Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean -- Jeff Mariotte
  • What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place. -- LeAnn Rimes
  • Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush. -- David Letterman
  • It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity. -- Humphrey Bogart
  • Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging. -- Jay Leno
  • I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean. -- Peter Brimelow
  • General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections. -- Jay Leno
  • Howard Dean was endorsed by Al Gore. Now, if Dean could get Gray Davis to campaign for him, that would put him over the top. -- Jay Leno
  • Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now. -- Jay Leno
  • Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck. -- Amy Poehler
  • George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning. -- Ralph Nader
  • James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. -- Emile Hirsch
  • Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did." -- Michael Buble
  • Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot. -- James Dashner
  • I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone. -- Craig Kilborn
  • Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive. -- Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean) -- Jeff Mariotte
  • Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me. -- Al Pacino
  • So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin". -- Tommy Cooper
  • Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. -- Jason Kidd
  • You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max. -- James Patterson
  • A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me. -- Liz Sheridan
  • Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them. -- Rich Galen
  • My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment. -- James Wolk
  • I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on 'Dynasty' or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere. -- Jane Leeves
  • Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators. -- David Letterman
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  • Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy - but now I know this guy is presidential material. -- David Letterman
  • I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way. -- Rupert Graves
  • Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean. -- Robert Pattinson
  • In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal. -- David Letterman
  • I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album. -- Michael Spradlin
  • Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth. -- Leo Durocher
  • I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I DO have the heart of a lion. -- Burt Reynolds
  • I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time. -- Michael Buble
  • Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. -- Jack Kerouac
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