Carl Reiner Quotes
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.
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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
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People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.
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There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.
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We believed from the beginning that we could do it. We stuck in there and fought our butts off just to get back where we were and win the ball game.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
