Chicken John ("Chicken" John Rinaldi) Quotes
I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.
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The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
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Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
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My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'
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A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?
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There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
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It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
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This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.
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How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
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I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
