Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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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.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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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.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
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Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.
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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
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My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
