Evel Knievel Quotes

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

Evel Knievel

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• Political Things

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• According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

  

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• Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

  

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• When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

  

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• The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.

  

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• When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

  

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• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  

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• The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• All going well, I should have the rollout completed in about three months time.

  

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• I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.

  

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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

  

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• We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  

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• I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.

  

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• We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

  

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• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

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• You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

  

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• You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  

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  • Hurt
  • Dresses
  • Immortality

• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Population
  • Wars
  • Provide