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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It is extremely frustrating if you are in your 20s and you want to embark on having a family and you're struggling to meet people.
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At the moment of conception.
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. So much of modern rock is referencing music from 20 years ago.
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I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
