Mort Sahl Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
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(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
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Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
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Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
