Don Adams Quotes
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic and literary structures imposed by me, but at the same time, all the tracks are shaped and ordered in a much more improvisational manner. The guiding principle for me is whether or not a story adds a layer or texture to the overall collection.
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Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
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There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.
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Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.
