Paul Lynde Quotes
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.
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General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.
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I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
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The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
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I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'
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I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
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Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
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I've got an incredible family that I never get to see. I've missed so much. They know how much my career means to me, and they allow me to go and be the workaholic that they never get to see. They support me in that.
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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
