Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
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No matter how far those dreams have taken me, I have always remembered, I’m the daughter of a small-business owner and the granddaughter of a factory worker - and proud of both.
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Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.
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Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it
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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
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I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'
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It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
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Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.
