Leslie Nielsen Quotes
I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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It'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.
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I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
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I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
