Carl Reiner Quotes
When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
Quotes to Explore
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.
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What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.
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I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
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Nothing good happens without a penalty.
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When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
