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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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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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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Honestly, I'd rather hug than shake hands. I don't know where those hands have been!
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Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
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I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.
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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.
