Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
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Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
