Flip Wilson Quotes
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
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Food is the place where you begin.
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Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.
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Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
