Johnny Carson Quotes

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Johnny Carson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1925 - January 23, 2005

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I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Robert J. Flaherty

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I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

John Sandford

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'Last Man Standing' has been an amazing treat because it is the best day job you could have because we laugh every day. It lightened me up a bit because I tend to go to some dark places.

Amanda Fuller

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Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.

Robin Zander

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If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Joy Bryant

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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

Clive Cussler

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To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

Brooke Burns

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You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.

Shannon Sharpe

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I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

Rick Rubin

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And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Martin Chemnitz

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Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face... A good hard day's work.

Lindsay Fox

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