Andy Kaufman Quotes
The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.
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It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
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People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.
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I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
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The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
