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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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 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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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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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
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I don't even sing in the shower.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
