Jean Shepherd Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
Sam Kean -
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Harold Pinter -
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson -
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
Karen Abbott
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback -
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
Gary Herbert -
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug -
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein -
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters -
Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
Jack Canfield -
There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
Idina Menzel -
I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
Narendra Modi -
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
Harlan Coben -
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Larry Niven -
I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
Edgar Ramirez -
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
David Viscott -
My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
Jaclyn Smith -
When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.
Jenny Han -
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
Jean Shepherd