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  • I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it. -- Gerard Butler
  • PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect. -- Ken Goldberg
  • AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don't get no respect. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
  • I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager. -- Kathy Valentine
  • I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. -- Cher
  • And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy. -- Robert Klein
  • Rodney the ghoul?...Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. -- Wolfman Jack
  • What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. -- Eazy-E
  • I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. -- Stephen Dobyns
  • I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent, and I loved that! -- Gabriel Iglesias
  • For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted. -- John Hope Bryant
  • I'm living three dreams: Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's. Cause we can't get along, no resolution? 'Til we drown all these haters... Rest in peace to Whitney Houston -- Kanye West
  • Brave words in a room full of pulseless creatures. Spade gave Don a disgusted glance while Rodney just licked his lips. No doubt he was mentally salting and peppering Don. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky. -- Don King
  • You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf" Rodney laughed. "No Justina, it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dahmer's hideaway. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • I'm not a rock star, I'm not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there's just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much. -- Beryl Bender Birch
  • James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together. -- Vonda Shepard
  • My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. -- Lyle Lovett
  • At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product. -- Colin Angle
  • No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. -- Daryl Gates
  • A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started! -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Well with girls I don't get no respect. I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said Are you Louise? She said, Are you Rodney? I said, Yeah. She said, I'm not Louise. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics. -- Chris Rock
  • When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?' -- Brandy Norwood
  • For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?' -- Rodney King
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