Carol Burnett Quotes
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
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What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.
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I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
