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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The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
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The Cross is not the terrible end of a pious happy life. Instead, it stands at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ. Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.
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In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
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Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.
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As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
