Harry Shearer Quotes
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
Harry Shearer
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?
Pamela Anderson
The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
Gary Hume
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
W. G. Sebald
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
P. T. Barnum
We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
Barack Obama
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
Florence King
In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.
James Gleick
Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
Matt Cameron
Pearl Jam
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
Douglas Brinkley
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
Dean Kamen
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
Claire Forlani
It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
Joe Gibbs
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
David L. Ulin
When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
Harry Shearer
