Carol Burnett Quotes
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
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Every wall is a door.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I love working with women.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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It ain't over till it's over.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
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I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.
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Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.
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When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
