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.
Ted Danson -
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.
Fatema Mernissi -
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Larry Harvey -
I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
Lance Gross
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
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.
Garth Stein -
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
Gale Harold -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Natalie Cole -
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.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.
Natalie Portman -
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Archimedes -
One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
Elias Canetti -
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
John Adams -
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Claude Bernard -
I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process.
Will Durant -
If I was going to build a logical defense for myself in a match against Hulk Hogan, I think I would try to work on his legs. Take out any mobility.
Bret Hart -
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson -
[Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.
William Weld -
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.
Caroline Myss -
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin