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 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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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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It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
