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Quotes by Entertainer
"The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers."
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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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"Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite."
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"I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home."
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"Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective."
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"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
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"In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them."
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"Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right."
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"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."
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"The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years."
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"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."
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"Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves."
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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners."
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"That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve."
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"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."
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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 only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."
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"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
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"A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations."
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"Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery."
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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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"Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step."
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"I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial."
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"After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party."
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."
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"It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions."
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"So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are."
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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
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"I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too."
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"Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion."
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"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities."
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"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."
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"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."
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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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"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."
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"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."
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"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."
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"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV."
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"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."
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"Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them."
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"I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over."
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