Carl Reiner Quotes
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
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I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
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Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.
