Regis Philbin (Regis Francis Xavier Philbin) Quotes
So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it.
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
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So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
