Andy Zaltzman Quotes
Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and things symbolized are independent of each other; nevertheless, we all have a way of feeling as if
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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Abraham Lincoln once said, 'All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.' I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.
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Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
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Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.
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Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family.
