J. P. Donleavy Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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I started my business with my best friend from high school.
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When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
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You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.
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The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
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Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
