Jimmy Breslin Quotes

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Forget

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Will
  • Protest
  • Expressing

• We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • Work
  • Coffee

• Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Broken

• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
  • She
  • Government

• Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Remember

• We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.

  

  Angela Elwell Hunt
  • Needs
  • Bold
  • Visionaries

• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

  

  Miranda July
  • Tears
  • Same
  • Languages

• If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Tears