Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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I love putting visuals to music. I feel like a lot of times it helps people contextualize that message or that experience.
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I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
