Wilson Mizner Quotes
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"
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The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
