"Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."

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Source : "TIME" Magazine, September 29, 1986.

Art Buchwald

#Taken Quotes #Heart Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.”
“The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.”
“I haven't quite wrapped my brain around the sleeping part yet, but I'm definitely working like a maniac.”
“If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.”

Source : "Comic-Con 2011: 'The Big Bang Theory's' Kunal Nayyar (Q&A)" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 06, 2011.
“If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.”

Source : "Perry Says He Believes Non-Christians Will Go to Hell; Rivals Pounce". Dallas Morning News, November 06, 2006.
“You ought to try being cruel to some people.”
“After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.”

Source : "The Bandinis 2013: an utterly exhaustive review of the Serie A season" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2013.
“The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws...”

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