Bobcat Goldthwait (Robert Francis Goldthwait) Quotes
Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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I love Canada.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.
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There is no end to the deceits of the past.
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Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
