Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
-
I am always locked in my design studio.
-
My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
-
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
-
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
-
We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
-
I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
-
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
-
Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
-
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
-
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
-
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
-
I'm actually not on Twitter.
-
Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
-
I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
-
A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
-
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
-
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
-
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
-
I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
-
There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.
-
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
