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 think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.
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I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.
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Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.
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I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
