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Quotes by Entertainer

"In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds."

"When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe."

"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business."

"I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style."

"The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job."

"Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries."

"When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money."

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

"I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to."

"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt."

"I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will."

"There's nothing better than a good, blind referee."

"People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to."

"I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy."

"If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow."

"The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite."

"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."

"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition."

"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."

"Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities."

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."

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

"The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds."

"Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office."

"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 speak to people who have been through so much more."

"At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear."

"Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money."

"My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country."

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

"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."

"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."

"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again."

"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."

"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."
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