Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I think I need security.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.
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In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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My wife has teeth like the stars... they come out at night.
