Ed Brubaker Quotes
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
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Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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Everybody eats something But you won't eat me You won't get me on your plate Or have me over for tea Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
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And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.
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I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.
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The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.
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The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
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I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
