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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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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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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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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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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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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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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For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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.
