Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
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Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
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I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.
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With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.
