Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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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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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
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Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?
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There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?
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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
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You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.
