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Jonathan Winters Quotes

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Jonathan Winters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1925 - April 11, 2013

Topics

Funny Father Mother Sad People Me

Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.

Politics Influence Will Asian China

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

Learning Language Learn Mad Kids

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but it's wrong. In five and a half years in politics up north, no one really bothered to criticize my ideas, such as they were. It was never my message that was the issue. It was always the messenger.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Faith Politics Ideas Thinking

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Good Ideas Young Movies Editing

The unknown is always interesting.

Interesting Unknown Always

Octavia Spencer rocks. But just as a human being, she's so down-to-earth. Talk about being pleasantly surprised. You walk onto set, and she's making these jokes, and she's playing around with the cast and the crew, and she invited all to her house for a dinner party. She's just a genuinely good person.

Good Walk Dinner Good Person You

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.

Yourself People Giving You Unique

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

Beautiful Me World You May Instinct

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

Singing Now Entertainment First

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Truth Moment I Am Looking You Fast

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

Nature Progress Travel Environmental

When I went to prom, I was in a group picture, and a parent zoomed in and took the picture of only me. I was weirded out, and later he was like, 'Sorry, I was sending that to my sister.'

Me Sister Sorry Parent Picture Out

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