Art Buchwald Quotes
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
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Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.
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But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
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Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
