Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an Osage clan that would take the lead whenever the tribe was venturing into unfamiliar realms. And, in a way, we are all travelers in the mist. The challenge is that, as writers, we sometimes want to ignore this murkiness, or we want to write around it.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.
