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Quotes by Entertainer
"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."
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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 not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas."
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"What I do in my book is let people know about these programs."
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"Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!"
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"Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap."
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"I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated."
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"'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further."
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"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."
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"Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'"
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"Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world."
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"I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped."
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"When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?"
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"I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago."
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"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."
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"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
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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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"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."
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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"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."
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"Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see."
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"I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad."
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"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them."
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"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along."
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"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference."
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"There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind."
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"I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad."
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"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."
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"Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump."
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"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."
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"I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds."
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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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"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
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"'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!"
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"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
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"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me."
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"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game."
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
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"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
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"When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy."
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"Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent."
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"If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room."
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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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"I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals."
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