Art Buchwald Quotes
People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
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Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
