Kenneth Tynan Quotes
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
Hanna Rosin
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
Barbara Boxer
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
Pat Brown
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Dan Maffei
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
Taylor Negron
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger
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Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
Bebe Rexha
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Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
Nancy Gibbs
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
Orhan Pamuk
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
Calvin Johnson
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
Abbey Clancy
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
Ken Liu
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
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I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.
Tanith Lee
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There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
Gene Robinson
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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
David Ricardo
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A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
Kenneth Tynan