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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Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...
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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
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It wasn't getting worse at all. It was just feeling tight.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
