Larry Flynt Quotes

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

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• One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Never
  • Period

• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
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  • Political
  • Courage

• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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  • War
  • Parents

• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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  • Want
  • Way

• I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Friends
  • Moving

• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
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  • Walk

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
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  • Change
  • Band

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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  • Up
  • World

• My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Day

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • Look
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• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
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  • Person
  • Felt

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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  • Good
  • She

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
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  • Music

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
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• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
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  • World
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• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • May
  • Morning

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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  • She

• In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

  

  Max Weber
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  • Business

• No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
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  • World
  • Business

• I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

  

  Anne McCaffrey

• I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Family

• I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

  

  Larry Flynt
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