Harvey Korman Quotes
You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer Nichtigkeit verlieren. Sind wir ja eben deßhalb da, um das Vergängliche unvergänglich zu machen; das kann ja nur dadurch geschehen, wenn man beides zu schätzen weiß.
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Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
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We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.
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Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.
