Art Buchwald Quotes
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
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These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
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I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
