Red Skelton (Richard Skelton) Quotes
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
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I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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When you're a kid, you always think about your parents, and I still do. I try to lead with the same example that they set.
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I've learned never say never.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
