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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I got to write most of everything I said.
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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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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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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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Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.
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The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.
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America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.
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I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
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There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.
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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.
