Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
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I wouldn't let my children play football.
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The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise-absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
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I wanted already to be a filmmaker after I saw 'La Dolce Vita.'
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I'll even cut things. Or, I'll guesstimate it, and I'll have my assistant get it hemmed for me because I don't have time.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
