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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There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.
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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.
