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Quotes
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"I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball."
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author, political activist
"No extraordinary power should be lodged in any one individual."
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
Dolly Parton
I'm not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes, because I know I'm not dumb. And I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton
"Force may make hypocrites but it can never make converts."
William Penn Champion of liberty, founded Pennsylvania.
"I am ignorant of the Government's reasons, but I disapprove of them."
James C. Percy (citing an English Member of Parliament during a heated parliamentary debate circa 1910)
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Canadian-US educator, author
"We won't make a sequel, but we may well make a second episode."
Jon Peters, producer, talking about the movie Batman
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. so I ran over and said "stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
Emo Phillips
You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists.
Emo Phillips
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
Statistics are like bikinis: they show a lot but not everything.
Lou Piniella
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
"The beginning is the most important part of the work"
Plato
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked."
Katherine Anne Porter American author (1894-1980)
"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist and short-story writer
"Once what you are living and what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you are happy or unhappy. You are content. You are not alone in your spirit. You belong."
Sir Laurens van der Post (1906 - 1996) Explorer, writer and philosopher
"I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich."
Colonel Potter from M*A*S*H
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
Michael Pritchard acclaimed keynote speaker
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