Bob Newhart Quotes
Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.
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Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
