Briga Heelan Quotes
I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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If young people don’t like reading, let’s not blame television or the modern world or school. Or rather, blame them all, but only after asking what we have done to that ideal reader since the days when we played at being both storyteller and book.
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All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
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I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'
