A. J. Liebling Quotes
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
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I will never hurt a girl, I respect them too much.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
