Mort Sahl Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
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First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.
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As far as plans go, I never want to make any plans for my life, keeping to schedules. Obviously in reality, you have to do it to a certain extent, but this whole business we’re involved with is art to me. It’s making a nice piece of art. People expect you to turn on and turn off and fit into schedules and it’s a load of bollocks.
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My life needs editing.
