Carl Reiner Quotes
In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.
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I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession!
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I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
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I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.
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My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
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In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
