Wilson Mizner Quotes
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
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The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
