Jackie Gleason Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
