Carol Burnett Quotes
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
Danica McKellar
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
Rachel Johnson
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Umberto Eco
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We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season.
Gary Bettman
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
Dan Jenkins
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
Nancy Lublin
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
Pamela Meyer
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
Ian Hecox
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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
Pat Summitt
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
Florence Nightingale
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
Mandy Patinkin
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
Oscar Isaac
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This acting was very hard work.
Jack Levine
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Frances Wright
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.
Ahmed Zewail
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The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.
Megan Fox
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It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
Christopher Hampton
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Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.
Carol Burnett
