Sid Caesar Quotes
After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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Y'know, I realize that George W. Bush is an asshole, but don't judge all us yankees by the actions of our government. Remember, he didn't win the popular vote so it's not entirely our fault!
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People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.
