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Quotes by Entertainer
"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."
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"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."
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"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."
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"We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea."
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"Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it."
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"Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people."
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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
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"I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'"
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"Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?"
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"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."
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"I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean."
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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
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"I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team."
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"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world."
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"I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never."
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"I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food."
Food,
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"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me."
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"I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago."
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"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."
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"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."
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"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them."
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"We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season."
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"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."
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"Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty."
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"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
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"In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani."
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"And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area."
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"Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around."
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"'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales."
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"In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over."
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"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
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"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price."
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"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."
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"It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out."
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"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
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"Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid."
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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
Key,
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"Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble."
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"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby."
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"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever."
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"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."
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"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana."
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"We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him."
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"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape."
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