Jerry Stiller Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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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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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
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A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
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To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.
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I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
