Jonathan Winters Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
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I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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I know you can be funny without being filthy.
