Carol Burnett Quotes
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.
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So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody, goodyYou met someone and now you know how it feels - goody, goody
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
