Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good at fractions.'
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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Threats mean nothing to me.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
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I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good at fractions.'
