George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another."
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William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions."
Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions."
Betty Buckley
Actress and Singer
"There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer."
Dolly Parton
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'"
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"I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone."
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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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"What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes."
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"I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart."
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"I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within."
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"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."
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"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
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"When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does."
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"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."
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"Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much."
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"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
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"I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing."
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"It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever."
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