Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
With sex my wife thinks twice before she turns me down. Yeah, once in the morning and once at night.
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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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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.
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With sex my wife thinks twice before she turns me down. Yeah, once in the morning and once at night.
