Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 4, 1941

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I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

Joe Jonas

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I live, like every real man, in my work.

Max Frisch

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I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Stephen Hawking

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As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion.

Stella Young

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Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

Tom Conti

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I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Robert Teeter

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I like being in the '60s.

Dennis Farina

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If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.

Chris Gardner

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Colin Powell

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I do not represent the Republican Party.

Arlen Specter

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I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.

Peter Coyote

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In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

Mariella Frostrup

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