Dick Clark Quotes

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Dick Clark

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 30, 1929

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Dick Clark

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

Dick Clark

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

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My father said to me at one time, 'If you are still a disc jockey by the time you are 30, you better find another line of work.' Little does he realize, I am in my 70s, and I still do seven or eight hours of radio every day - or every week.

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Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.

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Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

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Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

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I was roundly criticized for being in and around rock & roll music at its inception. It was the devil's music: it would make your teeth fall out and your hair turn blue, whatever the hell. You get through that.

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Two-thirds of people with diabetes don't realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don't realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you've got to get this thing under control.

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I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

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First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.

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I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

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It's real good to be back with you again this year.

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I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

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I adhere to my exercise program, which is about 20 minutes a day. I do it seven days a week. I have a little stall in the breezeway of our garage where I have a walking machine, a stair climber, and I do 15 pound weights, and I watch television. Because I hate exercise.

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I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven't done before.

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I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

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In Presley's time, you didn't dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It's all fractionalized.

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Personally, I'd like to visit every corner of the earth. But I don't know as I'll ever be able to accomplish that.

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