Tommy Cooper Quotes
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
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'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.
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One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
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Poetry is a form of necessary speech.
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
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If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
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If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.
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I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
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Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.
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My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.
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Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.
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When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein, it's like putting a log on the fire.
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Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
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Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
