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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It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.
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If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.
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Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.
