Mickey Rooney Quotes
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
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They did not appear here because of injuries caused in European championships last month.
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What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.
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When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
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I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
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Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.
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One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.
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In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.
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I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.
