Ernest K. Gann Quotes
Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.
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I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
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The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
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You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
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I just want my girls to have babies. that's all. so they know what i know.
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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
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I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.
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Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.
