Boss Tweed famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.
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I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
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As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?
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The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.
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Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
-- Boss Tweed
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
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When one door opens, so does another one.
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Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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