Flip Wilson Quotes

Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

Flip Wilson

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Tears

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Love
  • Think
  • Being There

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mother

• When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Up
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Immigration

• I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Taken

• My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Mother

• Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Art
  • Help
  • Religious

• Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Good
  • House
  • Singing