Nelson Algren Quotes
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
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Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
