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Garrison Keillor Quotes

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1942

Topics

Looking Eye Believe Reality Straight

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

Jessica Savitch

Cake Ready Know Off Only Means

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

Hell Someone Bad Person Say She

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Education Good Reflection Gentleman

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Political Talking Profound

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

Style Mistake Fashion Think You

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Good Yourself You Wrong Create Beat

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

Work Best Deadline Panic After

In Wisconsin, we have got a lot of agricultural products that are exported. We have a lot of manufacturing products that are exported. I don't want to engage in a trade war.

War Want Manufacturing Engage Trade

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.

Mother Girl Day School Night Desire

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda most of the year. It's extraordinary to have that worldview that is an expansive one rather than just looking at the world from where you sit.

Live I Am World Looking Year You

I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Respect January Tax Why Office

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Me Mom Doctor Buy Toy Would

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