Gene Wilder Quotes
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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Old people are often impatient, but for what?
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It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.
