Jimmy Breslin Quotes
A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
