Burt Prelutsky Quotes
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
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The first question American college kids asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.
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Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.
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You are a much more forceful advocate against gender bias and wage inequality if you actually hire women. If you are a white man who advocates for change, then hire someone other than a white man as an example of that change.
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A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.
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I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
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Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
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The audience perked up the more. American conservatives were a combative tribe who didn’t speak of liberals as their “friends,” but here Reagan did. His tone was serious, but it wasn’t angry, the way Goldwater’s often was. Reagan criticized Democratic leaders, but he didn’t criticize Democrats. He condemned the direction the American government was going, but he professed confidence in the American people.
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If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
