John Berryman Quotes
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
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We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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Adulthood is hell.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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On one side was the pain of the victims of the earthquake, and on the other the pain of the victims of the riots. In decisively confronting this great turmoil, I had to single-mindedly focus all the strength given to me by the almighty, on the task of peace, justice and rehabilitation; burying the pain and agony I was personally wracked with.
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I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
