Jonathan Winters Quotes
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.
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I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.
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Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
