Sid Caesar Quotes
People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'
Quotes to Explore
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.
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There is absolutely no room for discrimination against anyone in our country or anywhere in world.
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In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
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People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'
