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 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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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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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
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Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-
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To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.
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Trump is larger than life.
