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Quotes by Entertainer
"Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective."
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"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."
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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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"Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them."
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"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."
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"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."
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"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."
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"The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world."
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"Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal."
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"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment."
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"Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy."
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"I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments."
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"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all."
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"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."
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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 things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air."
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"I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair."
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"They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind."
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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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"Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves."
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"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."
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"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."
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"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored."
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"In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame."
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"We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice."
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"NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though."
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"President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards."
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"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!"
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"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
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"When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27."
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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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"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
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"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."
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"Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination."
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"I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened."
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"My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died."
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"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."
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"I don't have many easy songs."
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"President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003."
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"If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it."
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"Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'"
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"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."
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"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."
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"Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear."
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"I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half."
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"Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska."
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"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet."
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