Johnny Carson Quotes
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
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I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.
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I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.
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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
