Carl Reiner Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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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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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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It was very clear these people live with very real fear of emotional and physical harm, even now. Learning that they live in that world, that causes me to rethink and be more sensitive to some of the actions I do may have unintended consequences.
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The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.
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I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.
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For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
