Jonathan Winters Quotes
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer:Preventing angels met it half the way,And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...
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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
