Bill Konigsberg Quotes
I knew that she was right, obviously. But part of me didn't want to. I wanted to have someone to call my own so badly that I just couldn't let it go.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.
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That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.
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Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.
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I knew that she was right, obviously. But part of me didn't want to. I wanted to have someone to call my own so badly that I just couldn't let it go.
