Jonathan Winters Quotes
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
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So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.
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Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
