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Quotes by Entertainer


"Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right."

"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."

"I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me."

"There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind."


"Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery."

"Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard."
Time,

"That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"

"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."

"Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around."

"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."

"A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it."


"Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution."

"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
Key,

"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."

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."


"Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective."

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."


"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes."

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."

"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."


"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment."

"Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy."


"In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over."

"Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble."


"My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it."

"Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear."

"Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people."

"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."

"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."

"In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame."

"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."

"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."

"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."

"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."

"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world."

"When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air."

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to."

"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."

"I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive."
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