Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
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The world is always in movement.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I think I need security.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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The sirens are screaming and the fires are howlingWay down in the valley tonight.There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eyeAnd a blade shining oh so bright.There's evil in the airAnd there's thunder in the skyAnd a killer's on the bloodshot streets.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
