Charles Addams Quotes
“It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.”
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
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Is all the world jails and churches?
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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I've always loved mermaids!
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
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“It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.”
