Jonathan Winters Quotes
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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'(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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Mis muertos siguen sufriendo el dolor de la vida en mí.
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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.
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If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'
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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
