Joe Piscopo Quotes
I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
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I loved working with Stephen Frears. He's a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it.
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I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.
