Lewis Grizzard Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
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Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
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Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.
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Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
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I have it on good authority that Yankee men are so lazy they marry pregnant women.
