Mike Royko Quotes

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

Mike Royko

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• I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Easier

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
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• You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
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  • Harder

• There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Doing
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• Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Conservative
  • Situations
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• The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Fact
  • Hot
  • Fingers

• I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Harder

• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Day
  • Find

• I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Run
  • Conservative

• Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Women
  • Party
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• I have always been a reserved and conservative person.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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  • Person
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• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Conservative
  • Type
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• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • You
  • Conservative
  • Liberal

• It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Easier
  • Rocks
  • Throw

• If you're looking at substance rather than whether it's an R or D after his name, manifestly, if he's our candidate , then Hillary's gonna be our girl, Sean, because she's more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that. … I will campaign for her if it's McCain.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Believe
  • War
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• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • inspirational
  • Labor
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• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• The longer I live, the more I feel like the stuff I see and feel is like a tracing of the outline of the real stuff that’s beyond our perceptions.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Live
  • Like
  • Feel

• As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.

  

  Josh Holloway
  • Actor
  • Move
  • Experiment

• In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

  

  George Will
  • Office
  • Peanuts
  • Jimmy

• It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Conservative
  • Easier
  • Fingers