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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Todne ki rajneeti ka yug samapt ho chuka hai, aaj se jodne ki rajneeti ka yug shuru. The era of divisive politics is over, it is all about getting people together now.
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I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.
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While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
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We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
