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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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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For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
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Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
