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 will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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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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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.
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...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.
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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
