Walt Kelly Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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From their breakout 2002 single, 'Losing My Edge,' LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.
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The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
