Joe Theismann Quotes
I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'
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Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
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It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
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No animal admires another animal.
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The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
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I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.
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People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.
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I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
