Howard Jacobson Quotes

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

Howard Jacobson

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In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.

Jesmyn Ward

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Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

Matthew Walker

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The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Amy Bloom

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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Tom Stoppard

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Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Mike Gallagher

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In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

Michael Musto

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Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

Chris Pine

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Claus von Stauffenberg

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I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Brene Brown

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As a kid, I wanted to be part of the Lost Generation who came to France.

William Klein

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