George W. Plunkitt Quotes
They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
George W. Plunkitt
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
Jack Adams
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
Kate Mara
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
Felix Dennis
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If there is contained in the works of Karl Marx an admonition to his followers to make life hard for themselves and to add to the almost insuperable difficulties attendant on social reform the handicap of offensive personalities, it has escaped my cursory examination. Nevertheless, in all the countries I have visited, and in the United States where I properly belong, the so-called Reds have conspired, perhaps unwittingly, with reactionary traitors and die-hards to place blame on Communists for all of man's ineptitudes and Nature's sorrows.
Elliot Paul
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If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
Eric San
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
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I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone a villain, we are choosing to part with empathy and that can be a slippery slope, both as an actor and a human being.
Bryce Pinkham
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
George W. Plunkitt