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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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 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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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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So the whole 'We have a list and we're not telling you' should tell you something. Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'?
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Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.
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Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.
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I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
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I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.
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The legacy of this place is heroism and goodness. That is what we celebrate through this museum.
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On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
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In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
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If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
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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.
