Louis Kronenberger Quotes
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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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 always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I'm always one time zone behind myself.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
