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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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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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 don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
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Trump is larger than life.
