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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

"it's not that I don't like people, I just feel better when they're not around."

-Barfly
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

cdennisg wrote:
"it's not that I don't like people, I just feel better when they're not around."

-Charles Bukowski


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

Xevin wrote:
cdennisg wrote:
"it's not that I don't like people, I just feel better when they're not around."

-Charles Bukowski


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I knew it was Bukowski, and I knew it was Mickie Rourke, but I could not recall the character's name, so I went with Barfly.

Fucking great movie.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

cdennisg wrote:
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cdennisg wrote:
"it's not that I don't like people, I just feel better when they're not around."

-Charles Bukowski


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I knew it was Bukowski, and I knew it was Mickie Rourke, but I could not recall the character's name, so I went with Barfly.

Fucking great movie.


CB wrote the screen play IIRC. So I credited him with the quote. Perhaps I’m wrong. Henry EPMIski was the characters name you might be thinking of played by MR Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:49 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

busman78 wrote:
There is a difference between dumb and stupid, being dumb does not make one stupid.


Yes - but if you do stupid stuff all the time makes you dumb. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:28 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

After a 1984 vice presidential debate Geraldine Ferraro was asked who won between she & George H.W. Bush:

"I think the real winner here is the American people!"
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

nsracing wrote:
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There is a difference between dumb and stupid, being dumb does not make one stupid.


Yes - but if you do stupid stuff all the time makes you dumb. Laughing



Stupid Is as stupid does….

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:16 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

From Bring a Trailer:

Oh, and bring some thick skin. You’ll be hearing from folks who can pick fly poop out of a pepper shaker, even on a $1,000.000.00 car.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:23 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

Jimmy Carter's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in 1980:

"A great man who should have been president, who would have been one of the greatest presidents in history: Hubert Horatio Hornblower—Humphrey!"
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

"Fuck this place"

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pretty much sums up how I feel about most everything
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

Awe. You're such a glass broken kind of guy. Laughing

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:23 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

"Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?"

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

"That's funny! That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.”

From Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

Max Welton wrote:
"Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?"

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:12 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

“Don’t get it right, just get it running”. Dave Freiburger @ Roadkill Garage.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 1:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

"If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over." - John Wooden.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:41 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

Harry Caray & Steve Stone calling a game in Philadelphia. Andre Dawson was playing right field when a ball was hit in his direction. Harry said "He caught that ball!" Steve calmly replied "It's a home run Harry". I guess those coke bottles weren't thick enough.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

"If I could say one good thing about my wife's cooking, she sure broke that dog from begging at the table"
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Favorite quotes ... and where they came from Reply with quote

'My wife is a terrible cook. I didn't know toast could have bones.'

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