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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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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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.
