Earl Long quotes
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“Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.”
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“A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.”
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“I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.”
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“The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.”
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“But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.”
-- Earl Long
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Source : Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
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“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions
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Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
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