"I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

George Singleton

#Water Quotes #Pay Quotes #Helping Quotes

“They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.”
“I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly.”

Source : Radio address on July 28, 1942. "Bishop George Bell: House of Lords Speeches and Correspondence with Rudolf Hess". Book edited by Peter K. Raina, api.parliament.uk. 2009.
“Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.”
“My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.”
“Genesis fans are a religious group!”
“People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.”

Source : "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.
“Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?”

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