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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Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
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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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Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.
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We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
