Johnny Carson Quotes
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.
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A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.
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God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.'
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
