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

• Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Common
  • Anti-Semitism

• 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

• What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

• 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

• The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Faith
  • Grammar

• You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thoughts

• No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Life
  • Power
  • Party

• Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d’être, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Party
  • Politics
  • Ideology

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

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Party