Jean Shepherd Quotes
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
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I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.
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Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.
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The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
