Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
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She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.
