Allan Sherman Quotes

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Allan Sherman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1924 - November 20, 1973

Topics

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I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

Jeremy Shada

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Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

John Sentamu

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There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress.

Stephen Rodrick

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I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

Steven Millhauser

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Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

Michael Vick

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I did find my direction at an early age.

Michelle Williams

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When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

Judith Butler

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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Jay Griffiths

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I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.

Jonathan Tropper

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The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Bob Weir

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I feel like modeling can be a little surface.

Selah Louise Marley

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