Flip Wilson Quotes
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.
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It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
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I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.
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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
