Lewis Grizzard Quotes
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
Quotes to Explore
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
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The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
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We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.
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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
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I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
