Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.
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I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.'
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Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
