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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we…
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to…
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.…
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await…
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from…
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought…
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the…
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among…
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
— Orson Scott Card
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of…
— James Joyce
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I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold…
— Dan Rather
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You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people…
— Roddy Doyle
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Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of…
— James Joyce
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to…
— Raymond Queneau
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I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It…
— Craig Raine
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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and…
— Joachim du Bellay
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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
— Mark Twain
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Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.
— Joachim du Bellay
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There's no easy way to say this, so I'€™ll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes,…
— Stephen F. Hayes
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