Wilson Mizner Quotes
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
Wilson Mizner
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
Vanilla Ice
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
Mallory Ortberg
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
F. Sionil Jose
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
Patrick Chan
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There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.
Ed Belfour
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
Parker Stevenson
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
Samuel Beckett
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
Octavia E. Butler
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No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
Marcus Aurelius
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On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.
Ashley Madekwe
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Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.
Ashton Kutcher
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When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
Bobby Keys
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We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
Emma McLaughlin
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I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
Audrey Tautou
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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
Donella Meadows
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The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
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I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
Wilson Mizner
