Wilson Mizner Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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They wanted me to lead these young players, teach them the way to compete, when the only thing I should be worried about is how I'm performing in the game.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.
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Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.
