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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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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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.
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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.
