Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.
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I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
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This kind of day Has no night Ain't got much on my mind Ain't got much on my mind 'Cause I know Something good this way comes.
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What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
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I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
