I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.
TIM ALLENMen are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
More Tim Allen Quotes
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If it ain’t broke, you can probably still fix it.
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As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.
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I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)
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If you don’t decide where you’re going, life will decide for you.
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Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we’re just the tallest people living here.
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The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas – where it’s a beautiful theater – is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.
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Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
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Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?
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My comedy is not mine. It’s a gift. I’m not that smart.
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I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It’s not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I’ll do it because it’s a moment that will stick with me forever.
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Boys can be disgusting. You can’t leave us alone for any length of time because we will burn something, blow something up or paint something. We’re just obnoxious.
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But separate a man from his car – that’s inhuman.
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I think there’s a percentage that don’t realize, that don’t know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It’s more of a it’s not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.
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I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I’ve never gotten over it.
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My stepfather stepped in where no man would’ve stepped in – six kids, five of them boys – and that’s heroic.
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