Milton Berle Quotes
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.
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If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
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Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.
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I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
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I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.
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I need to retire from retirement.
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What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
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I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
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I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
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When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man
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We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
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You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
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I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.
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The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
