"Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!"

-- Joel Chandler Harris

#Patches Quotes #Please Quotes #Briars Quotes

“Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.”
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”
“Don't even FRONT like you love your family, America, or God, if you don't have a DETAILED & REHEARSED Black Friday tactical shopping plan.”

Source : Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.114, Spiegel & Grau
“I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.”
“I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.”
“I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.”
“My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.”
“The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..”

Source : "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.

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