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Jimmy Breslin Quotes

I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1930

Topics

Business Best Person Never Been

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Laugh You Career Cry Want Where

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Respect Job Enough Concentrate

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Work Switzerland Here Film Been

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Travis Bradberry

Leader Vision Time People You Burn

L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.

Robert Ben Garant

People View Bad Oil Air Pretty

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Day Flowers Window Birds Better Sit

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

Christopher Meloni

Smart Think You Successful I Think

In my 20s, it was very hard to go, 'I'm heavier than that girl.' Getting older makes a huge difference.

Constance Zimmer

Girl Getting Older Go Hard Older

What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

Health Care Attention Separation Pay

People don't understand the logistics of advertising.

People Advertising Understand

I have and will continue to oppose any legislation that would undermine the important consumer protections provided under Dodd-Frank.

Important Will Legislation Would Any

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Good Judge Traffic Ability Well

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