Jerry Stiller Quotes
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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I've always loved fashion.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).
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pp. 56–57
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If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
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I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.
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Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.
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The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."
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If you're in music for the right reasons, you don't pay much attention to the grueling industry. For sure, it's great to have your work appreciated, but it should never be the driving factor. If you don't depend solely on affirmation from the industry to continue to find love in what you do, then you can have as along of a career as you want. I've always been in this for the music and that won't change.
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Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
