S. J. Perelman Quotes
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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There are guys out there faster than me.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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I don't buy cars I can't drive.
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The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
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Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
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I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.
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Before they made S J Perelman they broke the mold.
