Paul Lynde Quotes
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
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Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?
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The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me.
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The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
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The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.
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I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
