Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.
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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
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Εὐάγγελος μέν, ὥσπερ ἡ παροιμία,ἕως γένοιτο μητρὸς εὐφρόνης πάρα.
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I think it's rare to get on a show that lasts.
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Staying healthy puts good numbers up. If you stay healthy and try to do the things that you can to win ballgames and do what you can for your team, that's all that matters.
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My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.
