Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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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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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born.
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Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.
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You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living... At that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"
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I always wanted to be a professional player, but when I started playing well in Challengers and, for the first time, I did well at ATP tournaments, I saw that these guys are also beatable.
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I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.
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I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
