Carol Burnett Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
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I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
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I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.
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I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.
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In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
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I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.
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I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.
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Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.
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I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.
