Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I enjoy my life.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
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If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
