Del Close Quotes
It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
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I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
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The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
