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Quotes by Entertainer
"I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4."
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"When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
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"As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation."
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"Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?"
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"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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"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."
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"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."
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"I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it."
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"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
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"You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers."
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"The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated."
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"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison."
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"For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it."
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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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"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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"It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?"
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"There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on."
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"I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years."
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"I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy."
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"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."
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"I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call."
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"Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up."
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"Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times."
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"I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it."
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"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."
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"We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to."
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"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."
8
"There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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"Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?"
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"What you get is a living, what you give is a life."
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"You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity."
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"Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer."
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"A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication."
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"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."
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"They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger."
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"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers."
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"A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once."
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"I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death."
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"My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face."
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"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."
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"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
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