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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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
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If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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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.
