Carol Burnett Quotes
It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
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When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run.
