"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."

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Augusten Burroughs

#Childhood Quotes #Giants Quotes #Different Quotes

“When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.”
“When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.”
“The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.”

Source : Interview in Aftenposten, November 13, 2005.
“Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.”
“It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.”
“Who that man in the black Sedan With two cheap hookers and a Mexican Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right”

Source : Song: Mr. Right, Album: Mickey Avalon, 2006
“That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust”
“One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.”

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