Carol Burnett Quotes
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices
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Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.
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I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that.
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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.
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I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.
