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.

Carol Burnett

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• I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Never
  • Gun
  • Intelligence

• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Political
  • Gun
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • America
  • Reading
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Mistake
  • Lies
  • Process

• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Gun
  • Empowerment

• 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.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • High
  • Man

• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Funny
  • End
  • Gun

• I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Learn
  • Gun

• I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Violence
  • Serious
  • Waiting

• I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Need
  • Gun

• In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Different
  • Violence
  • Gun

• Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Done
  • Together
  • Violence

• I love imperfections.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Imperfections

• 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.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Long
  • Home
  • Want

• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Time
  • House
  • Small

• Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Good
  • Country
  • Gun

• If they were part of the self-correction (i. e., of the space-time continuum) what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?

  

  Connie Willis
  • Time
  • Free
  • Space

• The safety of my opponent was critical to me.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Safety
  • Critical
  • Opponent

• A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Work
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Gun