Flip Wilson Quotes
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
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We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.
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Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
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I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
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I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
