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Quotes by Entertainer
"But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice."
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"What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents."
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"I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun."
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"I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice."
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"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that."
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"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money."
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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
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"It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food."
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"I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21."
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"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
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"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better."
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"It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route."
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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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"I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time."
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"Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance."
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"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life."
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"Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!"
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"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."
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"Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it."
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"I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing."
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"Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them."
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"All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement."
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"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
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"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
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"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."
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"My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place."
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"If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her."
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"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that."
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"Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate."
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"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."
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"There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside."
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"People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right."
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"It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef."
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"Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it."
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"A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone."
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"To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance."
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"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
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"When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes."
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"Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you."
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"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."
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"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."
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"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
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"Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product."
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