Boss Tweed Quotes
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.
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What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
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How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.
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Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
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Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
