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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Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.
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Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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To sit around and say, I’m not motivated so I can’t do anything, to me is the same thing as being like, I’m so hungry I can’t eat. The only way you’re going to alleviate your hunger is to eat some food, the only way to fix your motivational problem is to do something.
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I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
