Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.

Jack Roy

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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

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• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

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• I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

  

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• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  

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• When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

  

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• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

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• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

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• I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Kid
  • Rejection
  • Yo-yo