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Quotes by Entertainer
"Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them."
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"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself."
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"I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home."
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"There are no limits, love, there are no limits."
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"If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer."
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"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."
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"Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
Past,
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"A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution."
40
"Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful."
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"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."
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"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
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"When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money."
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"And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it."
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"I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name."
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"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."
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"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
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"Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected."
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"If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all."
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"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."
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"Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story."
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"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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"The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other."
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"We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season."
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"Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet."
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"I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had."
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"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well."
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"And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?"
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"I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored."
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"I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic."
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"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
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"I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?"
Want,
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"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."
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"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."
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"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."
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"As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible."
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"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."
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"MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna."
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"Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world."
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"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."
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"Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things."
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