Wilson Mizner Quotes
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.
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Birth control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
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My objective has always been to get better, no matter where my ranking is.
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Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
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RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex.
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I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
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We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.
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We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
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Sex was a trap, a snare. It was for animals.
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In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
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My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics - the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
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This morning was as hard batting as we've had to do in a test match for a long time.
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There will always be critics of the potato because it is lowly and humble, ... But it still represents $2 billion of revenue a year in the state of Idaho -- and thousands of jobs.
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Jocelyn Knight in Wessex County Court will be like seeing Katharine Hepburn in weekly rep.
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Our knowing - even of the most unexceptional kind - is always too big, too rich, too an cient, and too connected for us to be the source of it individually. At the same time, our knowing - even of the most elevated kind - is too en gaged, too precise, too tailored, too active, and too experiential for it to be just of a generic size. The experience of knowing is no less unique, no less creative, and no less extraordinary for being one of participa tion. As a matter of fact, on the face of it, it would probably not amount to much otherwise.
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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
