"These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle."

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Allan Bloom

#Men Quotes #Order Quotes #House Quotes

“I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.”
“One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.”
“I donâ€™t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. Iâ€™m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else.”
“The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they canâ€™t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.”
“Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.”

Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
“Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.”
“I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.”
“On her breast size increase during pregnancy: I even make Jordan look normal.”

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