Jimmy Breslin Quotes
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
