My uncle's dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

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"My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Love

"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Self-awareness

"I hailed from a tough neighborhood. I was once attacked by a man with a knife. I knew he wasn’t a professional, the knife had butter on it."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Courage

"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Creativity

"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Ambition

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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