Alan Patrick Herbert Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
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I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
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In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
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You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
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'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.
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Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
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In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri's slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, in 1965.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
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Scheduled shipping is one of many inventions that has made New York a global capital of innovation and creativity - from Willis Carrier's invention of air conditioning in Buffalo and George Eastman's breakthrough film technology in Rochester to the rise of hip-hop in the South Bronx and the world's first cell phone call in Midtown Manhattan.
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Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I doing something wrong?
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
