Pete Fountain Quotes

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Pete Fountain

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JealousySayNeverBandLeadTie

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

Melissa Marr

GirlSchoolBlackProblemRules

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

Robert Mundell

TaxesRaiseLethalSuddenlyThing

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

Jeff Mangum

DreamsTimeSpaceNightBedGo

If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.

Jeff Lemire

TogetherManAnimalYouChooseNew

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Roma Downey

InspirationalJourneyMeWorldTone

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Michelle Malkin

ChildrenServiceExcellencePhone

I don't know how to thank all the people listening to our music. It's so amazing to come home to my friends who resist conformity, because they're so happy that I've made it.

Lukas Forchhammer

HomeMusicHappyPeopleAmazing

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

Dennis Kucinich

OpinionFriendsBackHouseWant

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Douglas Horton

HappinessPastPresentComparison

If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.

Douglas Coupland

CrazyLearnYearGoNewSomething

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Bram Fischer

FearMeWishYouWayPunishment

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

Tiffany Haddish

SurvivalWhyComediansBulliedWere

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