Carol Burnett Quotes
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
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Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
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I love imperfections.
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I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives the impression that someone could carry it loaded outside the home. That's not what we want to do.
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I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.
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The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
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Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
