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- Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912
- Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Good taste is the enemy of creativity
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
- Shana Alexander
- I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
- Ernest Coquelin
- Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
- Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
- Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
- Nora Ephron, from her San Francisco lecture, November 4, 1983
- The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
- Vice President John Nance Garner
- The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
- Benny Hill
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