Carol Burnett Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
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If you're telling me they're horrible people, horrible racist people, I would certainly apologize, if you'd like me to do that.
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.
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My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
