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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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
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However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
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When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.
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I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
