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Robert Klein Quotes

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1942

Topics

Remember Boring Way Social Stuff

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.

Money Government People Rich You Go

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

Time Practice Young Drum Used Just

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Life Think Moral Never Lived Lied

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

Michael Andretti

Car Team Race More Different Only

I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

Life City Kind Hard Dancing Tell

We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.

Relationship Moon Think Earth Kind

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

School Cool Crazy You Go Talk

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

Truth People Clients Will Protect

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

Michael K. Powell

Technology Vision Over Consumers

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

Hate People Me Insecure Too

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Money Homework Diligence Pretty Due

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Future Research Done Way Being Able

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