Joey Bishop Quotes
The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.
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I think it's the aggressive press we have that does try to push President Trump, you know, into an area where maybe he will say something that then they'll just jump on.
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Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.
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The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.
