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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In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
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When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle.
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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.
