Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.
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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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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.
