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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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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The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.' The man replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.' And they said then, 'But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are.'
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Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.
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Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.
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Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.
