Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I don't like controversy.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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There is only one me.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
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Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
