Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
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I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
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I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.
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When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.
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I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.
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In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
