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Emmett Kelly Quotes

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Emmett Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1898 - March 28, 1979

Topics

Life Spiritual Me Wind Back Done

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

Matthew Desmond

Life Funny Smart People Potential

When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

Matthew McConaughey

Water Start Thinking Upset Out Sure

Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.

Steve Carell

Worth You Relationships Try Always

It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.

Tom Colicchio

Art Cooking Think Push Understanding

Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way.

Robin Sloan

Brain Baking Create Skills Way Same

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Mary Meeker

Childhood Small Small Town Optimist

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

Mind Guilty Absent Though Apply

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

You Protest Would Argue Please Had

No entity in the history of the world has collected more information about you than Google. My office wants to know what exactly Google does with all of the information it's gathering.

Josh Hawley

History World You Information Know

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Jonathan Richman

Feel Long Sometimes Hospital Playing

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Peter Hain

Chair Never Movement Out Vice

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Paulo Coelho

Boots Young Military Years Most