Danny Kaye Quotes

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• I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.…
• I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
• A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.
• I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
• I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.
• The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.
• When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is…
• I am a wife-made man.
• The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.
• Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.
• When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as…
• I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
• You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
• Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
• Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
• To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
• I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.
• Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
• There is a danger in democracy itself.
• Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

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