Mitch Hedberg Quotes
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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Book-learning scarcely tells me Of severe afflictions after death-bed; And such as have heard my bardic books They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.
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Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.
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My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
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I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
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Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
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I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
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One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it's arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I'm a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.
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I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.
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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?
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I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.
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If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe.
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Home is here in London and always has been.
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Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
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Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
