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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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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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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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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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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The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.
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Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.
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When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.
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Italy is a geographical expression.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
