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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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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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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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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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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I actually had nuggets and mostly Asian food when I was at the Olympics. But as soon as I got back to Jamaica, or when I was in London, I had a lot of wings. That was the first thing I asked for - "Hey, get me some wings."
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While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
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People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
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There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
