Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I'm not super into sports.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
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The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'
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My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
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The work is getting the work.
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Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
