Wilson Mizner Quotes
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.
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Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.
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The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
