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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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
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You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery, but a little modesty about it might keep the heat off of us. I can't stand the people who say things like, 'We built this country!' You built nothing. I think the railroads were pretty much up by 1980.
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At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.
