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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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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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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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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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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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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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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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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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 just take the fights and do what I love.
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The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
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Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
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The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
