Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Jerry Gillies People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Allred People who read my magazine wax their turtles all the time. - as Larry Flynt
    Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Cal Thomas People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Campbell People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Barry Ritholtz People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Edmund Burke People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bob Newhart People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Betjeman People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Bertie Carvel People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Ben Hecht People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Walter Savage Landor People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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