Edwin Edwards Quotes
The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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I grew up on a farm.
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The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
