Leo Rosten Quotes
The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Fuck you.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
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I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
