Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it.
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I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
