Carl Reiner Quotes
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.
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If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.
