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Quotes by Entertainer

"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."

"I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth."

"It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll."

"Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has."

"I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself."
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"I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that."

"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."

"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."

"An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign."

"NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though."

"Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before."

"As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it."

"What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?"

"The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject."

"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."

"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."

"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."

"There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity."

"But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries."

"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."

"Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar."

"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them."

"Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others."

"The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence."

"Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?"

"What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come."

"Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course."

"'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales."

"I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments."

"I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions."

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get, but if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

"I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet."

"He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage."

"I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it."

"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."

"I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago."

"Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid."

"I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble."

"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."
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