James Thurber Quotes
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
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When I was in Denver, guys came into the team, and we started at a pretty high level.
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I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
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That was important, that he had a knack for winning and a knack for developing, that he knew the road it took.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
