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Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

I had a tumor. But it was great.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this job.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.

But this is called show business, not show family.

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

Show business got really tainted for me.

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.

I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

In a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things.

Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.