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Quotes by Entertainer

"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."

"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."

"The ultimate mystery is one's own self."

"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."

"I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it."

"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

"The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are."

"You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things."

"When people show you who they are, believe them."

"Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch."

"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully."

"I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts."

"Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something."

"I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game."

"People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play."

"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."

"Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention."

"The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune."

"I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse."

"One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it."

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

"I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned."

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

"In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity."

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

"That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show."

"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."

"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."

"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."

"A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead."

"Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care."

"I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself."

"Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that."

"It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people."

"Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

"What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?"

"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."

"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."

"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

"Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment."

"I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain."

"In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules."

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."

"Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves."
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