Bud Abbott Quotes
Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
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It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.
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For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
