Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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My education was very tough.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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To go back means defeat.
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I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did 'Hair.' Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.
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At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.
