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" Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate. "
Denis Leary
You
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Hate
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" One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own. "
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" It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.' "
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" I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. "
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Lot
" No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever. "
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" If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now. "
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" I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. "
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Refuse
" I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan. "
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" I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory. "
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Playing
" For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is. "
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" I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare. "
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Think
Work
" How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean. "
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Figure
Five
" My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be. "
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Think
Time
" I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids. "
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Kids
" Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh. "
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Laugh
Sexy
Great
" My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building. "
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People
Building
Homeless
" My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave. "
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Goal
Carbon
Leave
" When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.' "
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Doing
Always
Back
" I'm pretty much a chocolate guy. I'm up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate. "
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Up
Type
" I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. "
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Authority
Problems
Pretty
" I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens. "
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" Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. "
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" Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it. "
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Why
" What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.' "
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" There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. "
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Clothes
Wearing
Middle
" Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. "
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Speech
Free
Comedy
" I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award. "
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Funny
Down
Award
" I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention. "
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Stupid
Attention
Best
" I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me. "
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Because
Away
" I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job. "
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Then
School