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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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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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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I'm not no Internet person.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
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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.
