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Steven Wright Quotes

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 6, 1955

Topics

World You Seen Keep Collection

They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.

Joe Scarborough

School Talking You Wall Ready See

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

You Others Up Do Unto Others Get

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

Life Fear Hate You Go Will

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Power Believe End Stop I Believe

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

Good Dreams Music Keep Going Day

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

Future Past Me Done Left Going

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Life Impact View Reason See Things

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

Dominique de Villepin

Community War Forward American Logic

Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo Box to art, artists and designers have been blurring the lines between fine art and commerce.

Art Soup Box Fine Art Fine Market

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Clever Write Everyone Jokes Things

I ended up in Hampstead for two weeks after the Tour, visiting a hospital every day before my granddad died. But he was more than my granddad. He was like my father.

Bradley Wiggins

Father Day Every Day More Hospital

For my brother and me, there would be no 'Field of Dreams'-like playing catch, no nature lessons with our old man. Instead, it would be a darkened theater, the projector light coming on, and a new adventure unfolding.

Nature Light Man Adventure Brother

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