Jimmy Breslin Quotes
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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I think a superhero would be awesome to play.
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I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
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Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
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If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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President Trump is President Trump. He is the commander-in-chief. He can roll things out however he wants.
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At Harvard, some on the Trump team crowed that we in the Clinton campaign and those in the press were foolish because we took Trump's words 'literally.' That's right. We did. You should take a candidate for president's words literally. You know who else took his words literally? White supremacists.
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As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.
