A Quote by Kin Hubbard
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
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A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing.
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.
One thing that really gets on my nerves is people spitting on the streets! I fail to understand whether they are just plain uncivilized or uninformed about how the act only helps in spreading diseases.
Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.
I have to say that I think maybe they did her a favor, and maybe she'll actually get help. Coffee's one thing, but coke is another. It's not something you want to really have as a problem in your life. I think we have to kind of stop rewarding bad behavior and actually start helping people.
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot . . . That's all that's on my mind at the runway, just walking - it's mad. This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough. I mean, this has been really tough. That's the most embarrassing thing about it, like, "This walking thing is crazy".
The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.
Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.
I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.
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