"Being an English major prepares you for impersonating……" — Garrison Keillor
"Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority."
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157 Quotes by Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor has 157 quotes on this site.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.
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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out…
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the…
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Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way…
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I don't want them to be told to remember me.
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I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio…
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the…
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You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so…
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She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city…
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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More Authority Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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