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Quotes by Entertainer

"I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting."

"After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful."

"I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up."
Now,

"Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS."

"More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had."


"And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh."


"I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me."


"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."

"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels."

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

"In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings."

"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."
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"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"

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


"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."

"They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93."

"There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born."

"As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market."

"I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so."


"Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends."


"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

"I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!"

"On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics."

"But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually."

"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."

"Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him."


"From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash."


"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."

"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

"Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records."

"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."

"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."

"When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know."

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."

"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol."

"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."


"We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed."

"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."

"I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain."

"For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it."


"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that."
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