John Wilkes Quotes
When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: 'Naturally.' He then added: 'And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?'
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
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I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.
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A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
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I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
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I love sleeping in my son's silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of 'Yo Gabba Gabba.' I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, 'My mommy's home! My mommy's home!'
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Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.
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When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: 'Naturally.' He then added: 'And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?'
