20th-century Television Personality Quotes

Shahrukh Khan

Hebe Camargo

Paris Hilton

Steve Irwin

Caitlyn Jenner

Anna Nicole Smith

Tyra Banks

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

No matter how far society progresses, our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.

If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

Bruce Herschensohn

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

You don't look tall if you surround yourself by short grasses.

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Michael Portillo

I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you're in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you don't care any more. You're in a place that's foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you don't like you and want you to die.

The only meaningful contact is one that involves a genuine, giving personal interaction. You may want another person to help you in business, but you must also be willing to help him and to spend time getting to know his interests and needs... It has to be real and heartfelt, or it's best not to try to establish the relationship at all.

Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.

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.

Dorothy Kilgallen

I think it would not work. I would be very jealous. It would be better if it was just sex.

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

Rosie O'Donnell

The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction.

Angela McGlowan

There is no alternative to work. I find nothing nicer than working. MK tells me that I am a workaholic. If I don't work I get a headache and I feel depressed. I like to work round the clock all the time.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy.

In European countries, there are more princes than dentists.

On finding a suitable man

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson