Barry Crimmins quotes

“We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.”
-- Barry Crimmins

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“You can't hate anybody till you hate yourself and you can't love anybody till you love yourself.”
-- Barry Crimmins

Source : "'Call Me Lucky': A Documentary Of Friendship, Childhood Abuse And Survival". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 27, 2015.

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“Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.”
-- Barry Crimmins

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“The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.”
-- Barry Crimmins

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“A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.”
-- Barry Crimmins

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”

“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?”

“This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.”

“Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”

Source : Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-July 1866”, p.151, Univ. of Tennessee Press

“There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.”