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Quotes by Entertainer

"I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!"

"So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year."

"I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair."

"CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'"

"Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life."

"All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully."

"I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world."

"I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it."

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

"I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting."

"Quit worrying about your health. It will go away."

"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet."

"Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down."

"I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor."

"Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference."

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

"There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it."

"But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen."

"Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him."

"Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television."

"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."

"If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others."

"For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes."

"I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances."

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

"If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me."

"The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost."

"It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement."

"I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account."

"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."

"But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice."

"I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally."

"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream."

"I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages."

"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it."

"In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project."

"I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time."

"In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series."

"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing."

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
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