When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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About Rodney Dangerfield

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Jack Roy (born Jacob Cohen; November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004), better known by the stage name Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He was known for his self-deprecating one-liner humor, his catchphrase "I don’t get no respect!", and his monologues on that theme.

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My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

—Rodney Dangerfield

My cousins gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

—Rodney Dangerfield

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

—Rodney Dangerfield

I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

—Rodney Dangerfield

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.

—Michael Meade

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Simone Weil once said, "I would like to achieve the kind of radiance that can bring about nonviolently what other people might have to do violently." And, of course, we see teachers like that. We see parents like that, who have a kind of radiance so that they don't have to raise their voice; they don't have to beat their children.… They simply make a different atmosphere.

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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

—Elinor Goulding Smith

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

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