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The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. Ellen DeGeneres

Myself, People, Successful, Unique, You

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. Ed Sheeran

Love, Music, Growing Up, Singing, Me

My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump. Erin O'Connor

Hair, I Am, Roots, White, Dark, Because

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. Carol Burnett

Stars, Today, Age, Time, Money, Me

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. Nicolas Cage

I Am, Want, Shark, Playing, Lizard, Acid

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet. - Bob Marley

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet. Bob Marley

Name, Know, Even, Bob Marley, Marley

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. Bob Dylan

Myself, Think, Answers, Bob Dylan, Lot

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' Larry the Cable Guy

Love, Hope, Flying, Loved, Movies, Hill

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball. Ellen DeGeneres

Reason, Ball, Because, Influenced, Carol

I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes. So I'd try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way. Leon Russell

Success, Writing, Story, Game, Late, Try

Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole! Jeanne Marie Laskas

Good, Live, Mom, Door, Look, You

I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen. Michelle Phan

Teacher, Great, Growing Up, Voice, Learn

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. Jackson Browne

Influence, Me, Rules, Different, Write

Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.' Anthony Doerr

Stars, Time, Sky, Mind, Tomorrow, Long

When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had. Jim Nabors

Hope, Say, Vietnam, Just, Which, Ever

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. Robert Fitzgerald

Guitar, Tradition, Meant To Be, Kind

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it. Bill Hybels

Great, God, Way, Dangerous, Stream, Him

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. Steve Buscemi

Attitude, Loved, Me, Serious, Him, Had

Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to land a reporting job at 'The Washington Post,' which pretty much put me in a state of constant awe. Bob Woodward would dish up ice cream sundaes for anyone stuck working on the weekend. Gwen Ifill

Job, Weekend, Me, Ice Cream, Enough, Awe

True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful. Nicholson Baker

Time, Great, Cute, Name, Bad, True

I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution. George Lois

Today, Revolution, Creative, Advertising

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. John F. Kennedy

Politics, Brother, Government, Want, Go

My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down. Michael Strahan

Time, Day, Brother, Friend, Laugh, Me

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Summer Sanders

Best, Good, College, Red, Growing Up

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it! Zig Ziglar

Work, Fun, Professional, Attention, Got

I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii. Bruno Mars

Beautiful, Day, Speak, Song, Know, You

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