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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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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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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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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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
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Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
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Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.
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Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.
