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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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
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My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
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People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
