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23 quotes by Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 nominations for Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album during his career and winning a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his contribution to an adaptation...
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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test... →

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I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy...... →

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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

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Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

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Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man... →

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Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The... →

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

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The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a... →

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I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

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I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

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You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

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I know you can be funny without being filthy.

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