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Quotes by Entertainer


"No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all."

"All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing."


"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.'"
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"Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people."


"Character matters; leadership descends from character."

"If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell."

"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."

"I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this."

"I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place."

"I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally."

"Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them."

"Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill."

"I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death."

"It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions."

"Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer."

"There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western."

"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."

"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."


"I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent."

"The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject."

"I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower."

"I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong."

"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."

"I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax."

"The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking."

"When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience."

"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality."

"Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states."

"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."


"I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway."

"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."


"I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly."

"Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam."


"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems."

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."

"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

"People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous."

"This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director."

"Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature."

"Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's."

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