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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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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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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'
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I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It's a really interesting part of the whole journey.
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I spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.
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The question of what we can do to give purpose or meaning to our lives has been debated for thousands of years by philosophers and common men. Yet today we seem, if anything, further from the answer than before. Despite our great material wealth and high standard of living, people are groping for something that money cannot buy.
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Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
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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.
