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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He said, 'I'm not going to make it, am I?'
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People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
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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.
