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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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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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
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I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I like the Kardashians. I'm a fan. I watch their show.
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I loved to talk about music to Nicky ... His influence came from people like The Beatles and The Beach Boys, and he had these ideas about layering vocals, painting landscapes with music. Roma knew about Irish mythology, told stories, wrote poetry and had this special feeling for lyrics. My grounding came from the classics.
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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.
