"A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting."

Joel, Billy on golf   

"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."

Jessel, George on mind
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"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."

Jessel, George on marriage
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"I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane."

Jennings, Waylon on insanity
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"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

Jagger, Mick on experience
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"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard."

Jaffe, Rona on glamour
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"What kills me is that everybody thinks I like jazz."

Jackson, Samuel L. on jazz   

"I was a veteran before I was a teenager."

Jackson, Michael on music   

"It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test."

Jackson, Mahalia on independence
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"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant."

Jackson, Glenda on acting and actors
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"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for."

Jackson, Glenda on acting and actors   

"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man."

Jackson, Glenda on money   

"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."

Irons, Jeremy on acting and actors
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"The Constitution is a figment of your imagination, held up to make people believe they have rights. I don't believe anybody in this country has rights."

Ice-T on constitutions   

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

Ibsen, Henrik on science   

"I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes."

Joel, Billy on mistakes   

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

John, Elton on acting and actors   

"Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun]"

Jones, Tommy Lee on movies   

"Doorman -- a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip."

Kilgallen, Dorothy on hotels   

"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."

Kesey, Ken on writers and writing
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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"

Kesey, Ken on voting   

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

Kerr, Jean on poverty and the poor
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

Kerr, Jean on averages   

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."

Kerr, Jean on hypocrisy
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"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

Kerr, Jean on hope
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"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."

Kerr, Jean on airplane and aviation   

"The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it."

Kelly, Grace (Patricia) on freedom
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"You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive"

Kazan, Elia on risk
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"I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra."

Kaufman, George S. on airplane and aviation   

"When I was born I owed twelve dollars."

Kaufman, George S. on debt   

"Amateurs hope, professionals work."

Kanin, Garson on hope
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"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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"One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down."

Kael, Pauline on culture   

"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right."

Ibsen, Henrik on majority   

"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."

Levant, Oscar on indecision
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Lennon, John on madness
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"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."

Mencken, H. L. on love   

"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."

Mencken, H. L. on law and lawyers   

"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

Mencken, H. L. on agreement
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"A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation."

Mencken, H. L. on gentlemen
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