Wilson Mizner Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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White America is in the minority.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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To be foolish is human, but the capacity to choose between acts leading to folly or to wisdom is a uniquely human gift.
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I`m an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We`re looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
