Simeon Strunsky Quotes
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Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
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The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks
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God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.
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You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.
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When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
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[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.
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If my mother were running for president and talked about a Muslim ban, I'd call her a bigot. If my mother claimed she didn't know who David Duke was when I knew she did, I'd say that's disqualifying. If my mother called an Indiana judge a Mexican, I would say that's a bigoted remark.
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I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.
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Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
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Computers can only do one thing: math. Fortunately for them, a shockingly high percentage of life can be translated into math...
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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Capability means imagination...
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
