Lewis Grizzard Quotes
I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories.
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If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.
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Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.
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I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff.
