Milton Berle Quotes
My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
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The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
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Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.
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I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."
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You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
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The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.
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I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!
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I have no fear, I have only love.
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With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
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All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
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Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
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My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.
