"Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count……" — Jimmy Breslin
"Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university."
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38 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin has 38 quotes on this site.
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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks…
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
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Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public…
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Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary…
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Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I…
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A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and…
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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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