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Quotes by Entertainer
"There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude."
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"That my business success is equal to my personal life."
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"Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself."
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"People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife."
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"I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been."
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"I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married."
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"Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment."
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"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known."
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"Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction."
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"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
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"Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know."
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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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"There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system."
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"Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?"
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"So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do."
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"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."
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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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"The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation."
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"Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government."
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"Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it."
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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
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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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"Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works."
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"An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40."
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"It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl."
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"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."
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"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
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"Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience."
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"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."
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"There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic."
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"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
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"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."
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"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
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"Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!"
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"In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen."
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"One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself."
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"If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention."
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"I have to be a star like another man has to breathe."
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"When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time."
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"I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking."
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"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."
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"Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage."
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"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers."
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