Carol Burnett Quotes
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what I'm saying or not; and I write them like that specifically. You know, I have my views; I don't feel the need to have people have the same views as me. So if they find the meaning in the songs and it's the same meaning as the one I intended then fine and dandy and if they don't, they don't.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
