S. J. Perelman Quotes
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
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I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
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Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.
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If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.
