Johnny Carson Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.
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Love me like you'll never see me again.
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Sometimes you pay a price for standing up.
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
