Jack Benny Quotes
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.
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The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world.
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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
