Jimmy Breslin Quotes

As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.

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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.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• 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.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Brand
  • Only

• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Want
  • Influence
  • Client

• I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Information
  • New
  • Speech

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• 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.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Nature
  • Man

• I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • Know
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • Career
  • Myself

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• I think a superhero would be awesome to play.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Think
  • Awesome
  • Superhero

• I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dialogue
  • Adapt

• Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

  

  Cory Lidle
  • Thinking
  • Calm

• No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Up
  • Different
  • Why

• If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Democracy
  • Trump
  • Nasty

• It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Important
  • Party
  • Forever

• As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Trump