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 know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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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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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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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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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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I really have the American dream licked.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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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.
