Jim Palmer Quotes
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.
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You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.
