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Quotes by Entertainer

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."

"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

"I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today."

"I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes."

"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that."
Food,

"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."

"Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years."

"Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy."

"I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never."

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

"The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions."

"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."

"Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again."

"I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago."

"I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years."

"Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska."

"Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference."

"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."

"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."

"And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing."

"During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage."

"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people."

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to."

"It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?"

"So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year."

"My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast."

"Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it."

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."

"The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth."

"I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound."

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve."

"I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?"

"But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass."
Wine,

"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."

"If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?"

"What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come."
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