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Quotes by Entertainer

"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana."

"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."

"We tend to live up to our expectations."

"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."

"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar."

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

"In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together."

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

"And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent."

"North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?"

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

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

"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."

"Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen."

"More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments."

"I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me."

"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."

"Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans."

"Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap."

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

"John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career."

"By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life."

"Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'"

"Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world."

"If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool."

"Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground."

"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football."

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"

"I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years."

"I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade."

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."

"We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him."

"If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully."

"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."

"In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history."

"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."

"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."

"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."

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

"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."

"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."
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