Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.
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Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
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Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.
