Jimmy Durante Quotes
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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My hair has always been a definitive part of my personal style, so I love being part of a campaign that celebrates hair as a form of expression.
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I'm grateful to have been acting for as long as I have because I have so many experiences and memories, and I've gotten to learn from some of the greatest actors, directors, writers and cinematographers. I feel like my career has been a privilege. I can't imagine my life without it.
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A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
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Surrounded by assassins!
