Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
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I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?'
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I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.
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There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
