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 still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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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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In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
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The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
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While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.
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Violet is my everything. She's the sweetest little girl in the whole world. She inspires me. I'm glad that we have such a close relationship because she makes me laugh and shows me how great life can be every day.
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Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.
