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.
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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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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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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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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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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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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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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 think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
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My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.
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I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.
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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.
