Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) Quotes
The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.
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Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Showbiz is a job. I never take it too seriously. I work hard, but I never pretend it’s life or death. I’m just incredibly lucky.
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The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.
