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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The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day - faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed - so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital.
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I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.
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No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.
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I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
