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Quotes by Entertainer


"When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic."

"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs."

"He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too."


"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."

"One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I."

"In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence."

"New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut."


"The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it."

"Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it."

"Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product."

"The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1."

"I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family."

"I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show."

"The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes."

"Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things."
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"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."

"I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline."


"I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show."


"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?"

"If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite."


"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."

"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."

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

"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."


"Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."

"I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me."

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

"It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her."

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

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

"Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation."

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

"The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something."

"I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them."

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

"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike."


"But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others."

"I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken."


"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."

"Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country."
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