Wilson Mizner Quotes
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
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Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
