Jimmy Breslin Quotes
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?Jimmy Breslin
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell -
What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
Barbara Castle -
I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
Barbara Mikulski -
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop -
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
Rachel McAdams -
I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
Gail Carson Levine -
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A. J. Muste -
I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
Tamara Tunie -
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
Imogen Cunningham -
I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
Imelda May -
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
Mahalia Jackson
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
Venus Williams -
I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
Vijay -
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
Karin Slaughter -
I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
Barry Humphries -
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman -
No agency is better than its account executives.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
Cormac McCarthy -
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore de Balzac -
When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
Anselm Kiefer -
You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.
Amiri Baraka -
Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want.
Charles Bronfman -
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
Jimmy Breslin