Flip Wilson Quotes
After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.
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We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.
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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.