S. J. Perelman Quotes
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
