Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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Fear goes where it is invited.
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Be generous! Give!
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On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
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I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.
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I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.
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Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey.
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There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
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I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
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Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.
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Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
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I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
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Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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My normal stuff is Dr. Perricone's hypoallergenic range. I have incredibly sensitive skin, so I struggled to find anything because my skin would react to so much stuff.
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Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events - a story - and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.
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You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.
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Everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.
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I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.
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Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
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I told my dentist I want a tooth to match the others. He gave my one with four cavities.
