Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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We always trend set.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.
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...every human being has an amount of genius in them.
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That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
