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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me. -- Dan DeCarlo
Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret. -- Martin Fleischmann
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis. -- Albert Pujols
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad. -- Dick Van Dyke
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. -- Jim Coleman
I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us. -- Horace Silver
If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place. -- David Dastmalchian
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan. -- K. A. Applegate
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. -- Mickey Spillane
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. -- Rob Zombie
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. -- Martin Fleischmann
I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. -- Dick Van Dyke
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing. -- Linda Evans
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. -- Dick Van Dyke
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films! -- Lloyd Kaufman
I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents. -- Gus Van Sant
I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - 'God Loves, Man Kills', which is a brilliant story. -- Josh Helman
They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his. -- David Lloyd
See! I just kicked Stan!!! -- Shawn Michaels
There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial. -- Albert Pujols
Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy. -- Warren Spahn
Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies -- Gabby Hartnett
How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away. -- Vin Scully
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane! -- Jim Cornette
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close. -- Mike Patton
I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts. -- Russell Simmons
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third. -- Carl Erskine
Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best. -- Mike Shannon
Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton. -- Jon Hendricks
No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today. -- Ty Cobb
I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career. -- Albert Pujols
Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team. -- Ron Fairly
I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself. -- Brian Michael Bendis
The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final -- Lawrie McMenemy
Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit. -- George Will
How come the Muggles don't hear the bus?" said Harry. "Them!" said Stan contemptuously. "Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don'. -- J. K. Rowling
You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''''I just applied for a job as a tree,'' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding. -- Sean Beaudoin
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. -- Merrill Markoe
What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth. -- Barry Moltz
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination. -- Miles Davis
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh. -- Rod Carew
When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year. -- Eddie Mathews
I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic! -- Robert Pattinson
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free. -- Paul Simon
There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people. -- Alan Moore
The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels, -- Jeph Loeb
I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - God Loves, Man Kills, which is a brilliant story. -- Josh Helman
I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most wonderful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts. -- Jack Buck
A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'South Park' more than anybody is my dad. Stan's father, Randy - my dad's name is Randy - that's my drawing of my dad; that's me doing my dad's voice. That is just my dad. Even Stan's last name, Marsh, was my dad's stepfather's name. -- Trey Parker
When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds. -- Frankie Valli
He means as much as Roberto Clemente does to Latin people. Thank God I had the opportunity to know him. I wish my kids had the opportunity to be around him, because that's how I want my kids to live their lives. I want them to be like Stan Musial. Not the baseball player. The person. That's the respect I have for that man. -- Albert Pujols
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy. -- Dick Van Dyke
When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of 'American Dad' titled 'I Can't Stan You,' it was a great opportunity to be a part of a really funny cutting-edge show on television. I really got into the character, and I was able to do some improvisation, which allowed me to mix in part of my personality into the script. -- Paul Butcher
When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job? -- Herman Cain

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