Donald Barthelme Quotes
'The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.'
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
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I work with a team of coaches and trainers to make me feel like I am not alone out on the ice.
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'The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.'
