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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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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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We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
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Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.
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One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.
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If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
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My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.
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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
