Wilson Mizner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.
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I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
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All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.
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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
