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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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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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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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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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
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I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.
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There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.
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He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.
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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.
