S. J. Perelman Quotes
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
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This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
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English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
