"Some people never need to let up at all."

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Ted Leo

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.”

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“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”
“Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
“Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To be completely honest, I was not at all keen to have him. I thought his drumming rather loud, his appearance unimpressive, and I could not see why he was important to the Beatles. But again I trusted their instincts and I am grateful now. He has become an excellent Beatle and a devoted friend. Ringo is warm and wry-witted, a good drummer, and I like him enormously. He is a very uncomplicated, very nice young man.”
“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”
“A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.”

Source : Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.365
“Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.250, A&C Black
“Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.”

Source : Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.58, Penguin

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