Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
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I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
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I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.
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People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
