Ashok K. Banker famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
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Alone we are savages, together we are civilization
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
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Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.
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You should always judge a book by its lovers.
-- Ashok K. Banker
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
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My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
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The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
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When diplomacy ends, War begins.
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
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