Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

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• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
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• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
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• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • Irony
  • Mustache

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
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• I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Political
  • Funny

• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

  Kacy Hill
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• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
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• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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  • See

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Life
  • Free
  • Space

• If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

  

  Alex Trebek
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  • Scale
  • Seconds

• I've done every imaginable job possible out there - movies, TV, animation, TV movies... and, at this point, almost reality, it seems. It's been a real blessing. It's been a great ride.

  

  George Newbern
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  • Done

• My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

  

  Jack Roy
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