Michael Learned Quotes

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

Michael Learned

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Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

Jesse Andrews

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Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

Jesse Ventura

BuildingYouDownKnowOwnStuff

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Maya Angelou

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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

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I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Robert Kazinsky

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Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way.

Ann Coulter

MeBetterPlayWaySellBooks

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Travis Barker

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The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.

Ronnie Corbett

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With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

Louis Auchincloss

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To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Judy Gold

JobPeopleLaughGreatestMaking

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Joshua Reynolds

WorkWordsEndLanguageConviction

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Janice Dickinson

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