Constance Rourke Quotes
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
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Facts don't care about your feelings.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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I owe a lot to my parents.
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All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!
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For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.
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Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
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Mmmmmmmm. Anderson. He's dreamy. Just dreamy. I've been a fan of his since season 1 of 'The Mole.' I just thought he was so cool when he talked in this cool, low, secret-agent voice.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
