Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...
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I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not necessarily putting myself under a microscope. It's unsettling but I'm trying to be the kind of person that can be alone, at peace with himself. Making most recent album, I felt braver putting stuff into songs than I do bringing them up in conversation. Which makes no logical sense. Lyrically, there was a lot less hiding behind suns and moons and stars.
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Trump is larger than life.
