Jack Benny Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.
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'Brutality!' cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. 'Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.'
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When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.
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I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.
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Jack: These last 2 miles were rugged, weren't they?
