S. J. Perelman Quotes
Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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The world is no longer against us.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
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Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
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Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
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It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
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Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
