Dennis Miller Quotes
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.
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Well, this man the T.V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, wanted to know why I stopped painting the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'.. ..and he had said it was because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.. ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.
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Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.
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Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
