Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Eddie got good at the right time - he was awesome. They (the Bruins) were, by far, the better team.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.
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Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.