A. J. Liebling Quotes
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
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I never thought I was going to be a comedian.
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On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
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The study of music was a family interest.
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My family and school life are important to me.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
