Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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As much as I loathe this aging thing, I'm beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That's been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.
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Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.
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As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em.
