Jimmy Durante Quotes
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
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There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.
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I want all of you to know that I intend to beat this disease. And further, I intend to ride again as a professional cyclist.
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There are networks of groupies - and nowadays it's instant because of the internet. Before, it took days to tell your penpal 'I just had Jimi Hendrix'. Nowadays, 20 minutes after you've zipped your trousers up, it's in New Zealand! Somebody e-mailed me a groupie website that I was on, and there was somebody describing my tackle. It was flattering but completely fucking wrong - I'd be the first to say that I don't have a ten-and-a-half-inch dick!
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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
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I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.
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I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
