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 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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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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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'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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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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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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You have a lot of stages as an actor.
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As well as ''playgrounds for football, baseball, soccer and kindred games, or any games that are in their nature hazardous, or require fenced enclosures or tend to draw together crowds of people.
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
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Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?
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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.
