Art Buchwald Quotes
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.
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I think I'm someone you would really break down easily, so I have to work on that.
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I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
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Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
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Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.
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If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.
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I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.
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The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.
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There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.
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When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
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North Korea is looking more and more like a poor man's version of South Korea.
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I'm not a super carbonated guy: some people like drinking their beer like it's a champagne, right? It's not my vibe.
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I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
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I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.
