Wilson Mizner Quotes
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Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
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It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.
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Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
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It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
