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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I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.
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'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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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.
