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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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I think one of the things if you look at minimalism or expressionism, there's various movements in modern composition that I think you can see really natural relations in pop music, so I mean I always look to that in pop music.
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The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.
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If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
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The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
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Bad boys are classy and refined. For example, even though Donald Trump came from money and a privileged lifestyle, he's a man's man.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
