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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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.
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There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.
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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.
