Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.
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I identify as a Georgian who wants to do right by Georgia.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
