Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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I've had so many injuries.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.
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I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
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No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
