Jimmy Breslin Quotes

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• The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
• If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news…
• Media, the plural of mediocrity.
• Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
• Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
• Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
• Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
• Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns…
• A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and…
• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
• Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
• Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
• Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
• Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
• What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
• The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
• The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he…
• You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up…
• Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

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