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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It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.
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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
