Carol Burnett Quotes
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.
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I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
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To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
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I'm not a person who likes to confront.
