Baltimoregal's quotes

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"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
737 people liked it

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast, brilliant, insults
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness
236 people liked it

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, suspense
207 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
242 people liked it

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: beer
80 people liked it

"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency
79 people liked it

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? "
— Scott Adams

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"Life is too short to learn German"
— Oscar Wilde

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"Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto "
— Scott Adams

tags: humor, philosophy
79 people liked it

"Public access to government information is a fundamental prerequisite to a functioning democracy. A democratic system is based on the notion that government legitimacy requires the consent of the governed. To be meaningful that consent must be informed."
— John Podesta

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"Senator Kerry carries shrapnel in his thigh, as distinct from President Bush, who carries two fillings in his teeth from his service in the Alabama National Guard, which seems to be his only time that he showed up."
— John Podesta

tags: abc, boat, bush, swift, this, vietnam, week
1 person liked it

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."
— Jon Stewart

tags: absurd, religion
177 people liked it

"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake."
— Jon Stewart

tags: humor, religion
313 people liked it

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. "
— P.G. Wodehouse

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"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them."
— John Waters

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""You can't commit a crime while you are reading a book""
— John Waters

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"I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay."
— John Waters

tags: baltimore, eccentric, humor, john, waters
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"My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation."
— John Waters

tags: baltimore, catholic, eccentric, extreme, humor, john, waters
3 people liked it

"Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot."
— Jon Stewart

tags: iraq, jefferson, jon, stewart, war
24 people liked it

"Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him."
— Jon Stewart

tags: hate, joh, politics, rumsfield, stewart
16 people liked it

"It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

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"Logic is relative."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

7 people liked it

"it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

5 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"When you're drowning you don't think, "I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me." You just scream."
— John Lennon

tags: humour
47 people liked it

"In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.""
— David Sheff (Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction)

tags: inspirational
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"Put on a sweater."
— Jimmy Carter

tags: conservation, efficiency, environment
4 people liked it

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America."
— Jimmy Carter

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"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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— Jimmy Carter

tags: politics, republicans
2 people liked it

"Go out on a limb. That's where the fuit is."
— Jimmy Carter

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"If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve."
— David Sedaris

tags: journals-diaries, justice
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"It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection."
— David Sedaris

18 people liked it

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"Information is the currency of democracy."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: religion
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"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: family, humor, mothers
84 people liked it

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: civilization, humor, society
25 people liked it

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: humor, wit
60 people liked it

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,143 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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