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Quotes by Entertainer
"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."
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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 Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."
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"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath."
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"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
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"It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl."
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"It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them."
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"Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there."
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"I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying."
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"Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience."
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"Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it."
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"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."
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"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."
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"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about."
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"And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992."
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"Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'"
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"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you."
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"I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job."
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"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."
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"I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting."
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"There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions."
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"Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage."
God,
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles."
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"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see."
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"As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show."
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"It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways."
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"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
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"That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"
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"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."
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"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."
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"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."
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"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."
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"I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax."
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"I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me."
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"People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?"
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"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."
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"I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future."
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"If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things."
Time,
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"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
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"I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway."
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"There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access."
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"They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93."
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