Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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I love Manhattan.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange.
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'Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'No.'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.'
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Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
