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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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.
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Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
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Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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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.
