Emmett Kelly Quotes
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.
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Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
