Carol Burnett Quotes

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

Carol Burnett

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• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Thought

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Pretty
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Year
  • Round

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Living

• Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Style
  • Dance
  • Unique

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Home
  • Singing
  • Bird

• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Energy
  • Stop
  • Rest

• I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Country
  • Heart

• Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Girl
  • Picture
  • Right

• I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • School
  • Career
  • Football

• I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Theatre

• Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Soul

• Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Easter

• If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Party