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Quotes by Entertainer
"In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad."
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"Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences."
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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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"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness."
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"If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it."
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"You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?"
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"Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob."
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"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
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"We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world."
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"It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest."
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"We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time."
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"If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England."
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"This is my present, you know. My present from Mother."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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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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"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business."
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"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
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"It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did."
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"Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people."
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"Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed."
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"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."
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"The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in."
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"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."
14
"In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special."
Name,
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"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
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"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."
13
"In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union."
13
"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
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"No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization."
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"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."
13
"None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at."
13
"He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'"
Day,
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"Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price."
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"Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible."
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"It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone."
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"Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year."
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"Character matters; leadership descends from character."
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"There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on "Friends" is."
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"Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!"
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