Carol Burnett Quotes
Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
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Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.
