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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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
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Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
