David Harsanyi Quotes

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

David Harsanyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

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SeriousWashingtonNeedTaxesHappen

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

Jill Clayburgh

GlassesDinnerNightWineFriends

Men want to make women happy.

Jerry Seinfeld

WomenMenHappyWantMake

I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.

Jennifer Egan

LoveLiveTimeNew YorkThinkNew

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

Melissa McCarthy

FunnyThinkSillyKindShadesLimit

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John le Carre

GreatWarColdSixtiesCold War

I've done quite a few big American films.

John Malkovich

AmericanDoneBigQuiteFewFilms

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Sun Myung Moon

TruthTruth IsDistanceWhyLine

Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

Torrey DeVitto

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I am a fan of history.

Tom T. Hall

HistoryI AmFanAm

I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

LiveMusicDeathConversationWonder

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

Roscoe Mitchell

GoodYouSpontaneousStudyHigh

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Jean Baudrillard

WomanManTalkingYouNothingMore

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