Johnny Carson Quotes
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.
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Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
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Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.
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I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
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I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
