Some Like It Hot, Nobody's perfect.


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BILLY WILDER
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
JACK LEMMON
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
HANK AZARIA
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect. BILLY WILDER
I need to pull away from this - She gestured between them languidly - "because When I'm with you, I ...
LOUISA EDWARDS
Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by t...
JOHN HEARD
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my a...
TIM DEKAY
If nobodys perfect, then God must be nobody, if God is nobody, then God is nothing, if God is nothin...
LIVVY ANDERSON
I don't think Jack made anything, once hot glue was (invented), that didn't involve hot glue.
JEAN PRICE
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stop...
KIM BASINGER
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Cameron wanted that Jack Lemmon quality for Drew, ... That kind of crazed, quirky physical comedy an...
ORLANDO BLOOM
I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe...
RICHARD SCHIFF
Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.
JACK LEMMON
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of...
JACK LEMMON
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
JACK LEMMON
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
JACK LEMMON
I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have...
JACK LEMMON
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
JACK LEMMON
I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
JACK LEMMON
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'...
JACK LEMMON
Stay humble. Always answer the phone -- no matter who else is in the car.
JACK LEMMON
I think whatever you do, if you are going to do it well or even if you don't do it well, you have to...
JACK LEMMON
[For his part, Lemmon says he's proud to work with Scott, and hopes to do it again.] Any actor that ...
JACK LEMMON
We're doing very serious stuff, ... But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not ...
JACK LEMMON
I think it stinks,
JACK LEMMON
It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point, and you build for that. You zero in on one ...
JACK LEMMON
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
JACK LEMMON
We're doing very serious stuff. But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not seri...
JACK LEMMON
How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
JACK LEMMON
It's the perfect time to be hot. Everybody knows it's tough to face a hot team in the playoffs, and ...
TEEMU SELANNE
I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER
Her character does things that are not very nice, [but] we forgive her. That's a quality that's rare...
GLENN GORDON CARON
I like to play long matches and in hot weather. Those are my conditions. I like it hot because it's ...
YULIANA FEDAK
It has a hot flavor taste. If you don't like a vinegary, spicy-hot flavor, then you won't like it,
JOE TAYLOR
Drop It Like It's Hot
SNOOP DOGG
Some guys like to hot up their cars; we like to make films - everyone has their own passion.
SIMON BLYTH
He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like peop...
MICHAEL FINKEL
Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it,
FRANK RIZZO
It looks like a really hot product,
MICHAEL GARTENBERG
I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it g...
ADAM FERRARA
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
ANONYMOUS
He told us he drove around aimlessly for a while before finally going to Mount Lemmon.
DENNIS QUESENBERRY
It's hard to sometimes remember we're here to have a good time. Jack Lemmon was the best at that. I ...
HUEY LEWIS
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
JUDI DENCH
There are some hot girls in Vancouver.
CHASKE SPENCER
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
PETER LATHAM
Some like them hot,some like them cold.
Some like them when they're not to darn old
Some l...
RING LARDNER
Now is the perfect time, when the weather isn't hot. We see hundreds of species of birds.
DEBBIE SHERIDAN
It was so hot some firefighters got too hot fighting it, but no one was taken to the hospital. They ...
CHRIS DAVIES
A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Marriage is like a hot bath, once you get used to it it's not so hot any more.
PHOTO
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on i...
TOM HOLT
I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. ...
AVA GARDNER
It looked like they had been drinking some hot chocolate. We also found nearby some poisoning. The p...
POLICE CHIEF RICHARD MCKINLEY
I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.
SHELLEY LONG
There are some brands that we didn't expect to do well in India, like Alice + Olivia. But they s...
PRIYA SACHDEV
Jack-This makes me feel like a man. Will-Yeah. Jack- No, seriously, I'm going to need a man after we...
WILL & GRACE
A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it...
NAVEEN ANDREWS
I just wanted some good karma, some good positive thoughts. Hey, Jack Nicklaus hit a 1-iron on the g...
PHIL MICKELSON
There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter w...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER
I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist.
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
Some people act like they're cool, / And others act like they're hot, / But both are trying to fool ...
DAVID L. HATTON
It's always a battle when you're playing against Jack Newman, ... I made some birdies at the right t...
LUKE CARSON
We just blast some hot water into the culvert until it starts flowing again.
DAN WHITE
Why don't you invent some hot diamonds?
CARY GRANT
It was a good Christmas for electronics. It was a hot area. There's some good momentum.
DAVID KEULER
I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.
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PERFECT STATISTICS
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Jack Davis doesn't get to pick and choose what the laws are. No one should be above the law, even a ...
HENRY WOJTASZEK
Forget Jack and Sally, lets live like Sid (Vicious) and Nancy...
ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE
A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY
What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings an...
MINDY KALING
If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST)
There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two per...
HARVEY BALL
My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on so...
ANTHONY HAMILTON
WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORT...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
Dropped like a hot potato
PROVERB
I wasn't hitting anything and George was getting hot. Just like the other games when I've been hot h...
BRYAN ERCE
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator...
LLOYD BENTSEN
American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in th...
TOM HOLT
[Verse 2] Why you're colder than winter? You’re switching the picture You used to be perfect, yeah...
JASMINE FRIEND
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
RENE DESCARTES
It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th...
ASHLEY TISDALE
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
DARYNDA JONES
Tiger Woods wouldn't say that, Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say that. That probably motivated some guys. I...
DAVIS LOVE III
Like a hot knife through butter.
CLINT HURDLE
Tossed around like a hot potato
PROVERB
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART
Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave...
MASAYOSHI SON
I hear a lot of birds out there, and you could see some big jack rabbits, too.
MELANIE FLOREZ
I played with Jack, and I tied Jack,
STEWART CINK
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement
MALAGASY PROVERB
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
JACK VANCE
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew...
JACK VANCE
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell u...
JACK VANCE
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
JACK VANCE
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
JACK VANCE
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI
Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI
There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI
No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to...
JACK STEINBERGER
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
JACK STEINBERGER
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
JACK SCHMITT
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base ...
JACK SCHMITT
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany...
JACK SCHMITT
My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA