Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
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There are too few people working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems, and too little time.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
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My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.
