Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.
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My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
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εὕρηκα heúrēka
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One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.
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You are either with us, or against us.
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Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
