Jack Benny Quotes
Bob: about Bing Crosby He's up in Nevada looking over Boulder Dam - his piggy bank is filled. He's so loaded, you know, he uses Howard Hughes for a bell boy.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
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My American home is L.A., which is the ultimate city for 365 days of summer.
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Bob: about Bing Crosby He's up in Nevada looking over Boulder Dam - his piggy bank is filled. He's so loaded, you know, he uses Howard Hughes for a bell boy.
