Carol Burnett Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
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People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
