Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
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Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.
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She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.
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I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
