Johnny Carson Quotes
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.
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The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.
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I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.
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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
