Tiny Tim

Falsetto ukulele player

Contemporary weird famous 181 sayings

Sayings by Tiny Tim

Originality is the key to success.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite
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I worked in New York in a club called The Page Three. Police closed it because girls liked each other that went to that club.

2007 (published), referring to events in 1963 — Interview with The Portable Infinite
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Age does not matter. A person knows as much at 17 as they do at 47.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, regarding Miss Vicki's age at marriage
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Mr. Carson's.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, in response to 'Whose idea was it to get married on TV?'
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It would make her mother happy and save the expenses.

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, giving his reason for marrying on TV
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These are the end times. TT: Oh, the beginning of the end times. Is the rapture approaching?

2007 (published) — Interview with The Portable Infinite, discussing current events
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Since I was not good-looking and since I was always in a paradise with beautiful women, going back to the late '30s, I didn't want to have this nose cut off because I wanted to take the challenge of making it without an operation.

1993 — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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Part of that was show business, the makeup and the hair made me feel romantic. The white makeup was like purity, and I always looked at young women as pure things, especially those that fit into my dream world.

1993 — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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I didn't have any S-E-X with her as far as I remember for three days. You see, didn't care if she loved me. I just wanted to make the marriage work. It never happened.

1993 — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine, referring to Miss Jan
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In 1963 I got a job at the Page 3 in Greenwich Village. It was a place where the girls liked each other I was making forty dollars a week and loved every second of it. Very beautiful girls came in there. There was one girl, her name was Miss Roberta and she was lovely. She had the body of Raquel Welch and she used to hug and touch me. You can say what you want, but I wished she dominated me. I wanted to be dominated by her in the worst way.

1993 (referring to 1963) — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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My showers were always to keep spiritually and physically clean. I only take small little showers when nature calls.

1993 — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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I met Miss Vicki on June 3rd, 1969, ten minutes after twelve in Wanamaker's. She had on a gray dress above her knees. She was seventeen years old.

1993 (referring to 1969) — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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But going back to this one, Miss Vicki knew all about it before the marriage. The fact that she was seventeen, some kids are fifteen. This girl Miss Eva, she's fifteen years old but she has the mind of a twenty-five year old.

1993 — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine, discussing his relationships with young women
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Miss Vicki and I had one thing in common – our minds stopped at ten! (Loud laughter). You have to realize that about yourself.

1993 — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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I even told Miss Vicki's mother before the marriage, 'Your daughter does not love me. But I will man-y her, because heaven forbid, I should break her heart.' So we went through the marriage.

1993 (referring to 1969) — 1993 interview with Scram Magazine
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He didn't believe in women working. He thought ladies should stay home & have blessed events.

Undated, documented 2023 — Description of his belief by a Reddit user, corroborating other sources
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He had a revulsion of public toilets and during recording sessions in New York, if he needed to go for any reason, he would walk the 10 blocks back to his parents' flat and return to the studio a couple of hours later.

Undated, documented 2021 — Description of an unusual habit from 'The Utterly Weird Adventures Of Tiny Tim'
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I consider this a gift of the Lord uh an undisclosed gift uh which a good thank god the Christ showed me also.

1969 — 1969 interview, referring to his falsetto voice
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I'm not kidding. anyone i can't describe what the Dodgers. and Leafs have meant to me in sports. i mean it's not only on the field. where it's important well even on the stage.

1969 — 1969 interview, referring to his intense fandom for the LA Dodgers and Toronto Maple Leafs
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Tiny Tim always wore a tie. Morning, noon and night. Mister Plym never saw him without a tie. Ever. He even wore one to bed.

Undated, documented 2004 — Description of a habit from 'Tiny Tim and Mr. Plym: Life as We Knew It'
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