Sid Caesar Quotes
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.
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I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
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Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.
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Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.
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The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
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You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
