Carol Burnett Quotes
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * *That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
