Jack Benny Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
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We have been supporting GIS in schools for more than 25 years.
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I've loved all my books, but I will admit that 'The Man from Stone Creek' holds a very special place in my heart.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please don't associate me with any of this. This is not jazz. These are sick people.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
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You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.
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Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.
