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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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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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 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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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
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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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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
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I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
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CBS encouraged us to do it in Shreveport, but we talked them out of it.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.
