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- You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
- Walter Slezak
- The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit
- Dwight Morrow
- When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- I only drink to make other people seem interesting.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower
- California, the department store state.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
- Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
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