Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Brad Garrett Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Allen Klein Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • C. P. Snow Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
    Source: Speaking in a debate broadcast by the BBC in 1936
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Bill Dedman After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Cary Grant Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Albert Camus Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Philip Johnson All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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  • Gail Sheehy All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Cyril Connolly All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Marc Chagall All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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