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Quotes by Entertainer
"I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice."
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"Yeah, the record for most titles was previously held by the Fabulous Moolah, she won it four times. And a few weeks ago, I won the title for the sixth time, which has never been done before."
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"In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear."
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"It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth."
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"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever."
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"We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels."
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"Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something."
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"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
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"One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate."
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"But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen."
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"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."
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"I think my own strengths are in television production."
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"Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people."
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"The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession."
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"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."
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"The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job."
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"I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog."
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"I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth."
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"I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do."
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"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."
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"People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to."
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"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing."
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"Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life."
Life,
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"From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show."
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"I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody."
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"If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn."
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"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things."
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"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."
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"Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course."
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"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
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"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."
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"No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area."
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"You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things."
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"You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world."
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"We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too."
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"There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media."
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"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
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"'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!"
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"Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness."
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"My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around."
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"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
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"There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers."
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"Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same."
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"One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."
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"It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world."
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