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Quotes by Entertainer

"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."

"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."

"We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed."

"To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed."

"In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh."

"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit."

"My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing."

"Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do."

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it."

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information."

"South Park started as a little video Christmas card."

"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."

"I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying."

"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."

"I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders."

"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

"I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is."

"I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life."

"One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate."

"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not."

"I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding."

"If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning."

"Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
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"I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based."

"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."

"Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system."

"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth."

"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."

"It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too."

"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful."

"The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight."

"If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal."

"There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!"

"Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family."

"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."

"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."

"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored."

"We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror."

"The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him."

"Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers."

"Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other."

"That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did."

"It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former."
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