Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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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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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Trump is larger than life.
