Carol Burnett Quotes
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
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Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
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But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
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Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
[Events]
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
[Adversity]
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I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
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I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
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It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
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It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
[Acts]
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't noah between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
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