Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I was an expert horseman.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Accept loss forever.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
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People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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We basically built a pricing model that surgically identified what people wanted to pay us for and what they didn't want to pay us for. One of the things we figured out early on was that we could create value for people by creating a product that allowed them to design something that they couldn't design without us.
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Sports is the toy department of life.
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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
