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Sam Trammell
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DARREL CAPPEL When a Merrill Lynch salesman came up to you and tried to sell you a Merrill Lynch fund, you know th...
BURTON GREENWALD It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
PAUL SAMUELSON It would be a very interesting outcome -- for Merrill Lynch to own Captain America .
BEN FRITZ It was tough to sell something with the Merrill Lynch name on it.
JAMES ELLMAN Two that need to be looked at are J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch. J.P. Morgan because they have been ...
ALAN KRAL We hope that Merrill Lynch sincerely desires to give teeth to its diversity initiatives and to bring...
LINDA FRIEDMAN Merrill Lynch is not for sale. We have the resources, the strategy, to create more shareholder value...
DAVID KOMANSKY For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there ...
SUZE ORMAN Merrill Lynch assisted Enron in cooking its books by pretending to purchase an existing Enron asset ...
CARL LEVIN I view this as putting smaller portfolios into incubators to wait for them to be hatched into higher...
MICHAEL FLANAGAN The Merrill Lynch report had significant impact on investor sentiment, which was already weak when t...
ALEX HUANG Our new Internet-specific fund is designed to complement the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Fund, w...
BOB DOLL Merrill Lynch is way below its highs of last spring, ... This (Internet) announcement doesn't really...
JAMES SCHMIDT We are very pleased to have entered into this arrangement with Merrill Lynch. The incremental liquid...
ED BASTIAN If you think the markets will be going up in the next year or so it's hard to imagine the market ral...
JAMES MCGLYNN Even before Merrill Lynch made its announcement, there was competition to add more bells and whistle...
CATHERINE HICKEY I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch...
HARRY DEAN STANTON You had good earnings out of Pfizer, good earnings out of Merrill Lynch , several dividend increases...
JIM AWAD In some ways, it will start to look more like Merrill Lynch, which is very strong from a retail stan...
BERT ELY Merrill Lynch was down about $20 at one point. I'm sitting here with my hard hat on, watching things...
BILL FRIES I used to work at a puppy nursery.
CHANNING TATUM When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was...
ERIN DUFFY I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
STING James Gorman and Morgan Stanley ( MS ) have complied fully with all relevant obligations with Merril...
ANDREA SLATTERY If you're going to focus on Joe as a person, let's look at Sam as a person. Sam had a [criminal] pas...
DAVID HILBURN Enron's deceptions were shocking, and equally shocking was the extent to which respected U.S. financ...
CARL LEVIN Enron's deceptions were shocking, and equally shocking was the extent to which respected U.S. financ...
CARL LEVIN I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wante...
CARMEN EJOGO Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used...
ELLIOTT CARTER One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch i...
BEN HOROWITZ I'm looking forward to meeting Alan Trammell and Kirk Gibson.
CAROL HUTCHINS I used the group work as a stepping stone. I always wanted to get into police work.
JEFFREY NOEL Though financial stocks rebounded Friday following a punishing several days, we think investors shou...
MERRILL LYNCH Financially, there might be reason behind the madness.
MERRILL LYNCH We believe this configuration has lasted so long it may be having a beguiling effect on the market. ...
MERRILL LYNCH We are pleased that the Supreme Court ruled in our favor. The fact that the court was unanimous conf...
MERRILL LYNCH Any reading at or above 61 percent generates 'sell' signals, whereas any reading at or below 50 perc...
MERRILL LYNCH Our intermediate-term 'strong buy' rating for Intel stands -- first-quarter PC inventory rebuild sho...
MERRILL LYNCH We believe Asia Global Crossing is well positioned to become the first truly pan-Asian network servi...
MERRILL LYNCH Lower refinery utilization is contributing to a build-up in crude oil, but reducing the oversupply i...
MERRILL LYNCH I like Kubrick a lot, Coppola, Lynch - I guess my favorite modern director is David Lynch.
ALEX WINTER I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
ERROL MORRIS Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standard...
MICHAEL BERGDAHL Sam had a great night. She comes to work every night.
CHRIS WEBSTER Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think sh...
DAVID SUTCLIFFE Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.
AARON HARBERTS Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have ...
SAM TRAMMELL Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
SAM TRAMMELL When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie...
SAM TRAMMELL I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I ...
SAM TRAMMELL I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Su...
SAM TRAMMELL I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
SAM TRAMMELL I definitely like to eat.
SAM TRAMMELL I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Van...
SAM TRAMMELL In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
SAM TRAMMELL There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
SAM TRAMMELL Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connectio...
SAM TRAMMELL When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now...
SAM TRAMMELL I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I...
SAM TRAMMELL I'm a vocabulary nerd.
SAM TRAMMELL In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control ...
SAM TRAMMELL Being a father is just wonderful.
SAM TRAMMELL When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain is...
SAM TRAMMELL I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because...
SAM TRAMMELL A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns...
SAM TRAMMELL When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you ...
SAM TRAMMELL There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
SAM TRAMMELL Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unac...
DAVID MIXNER It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
LAURA DERN I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year.
DANIELLA MONET He calls himself a reformed person who used to think that work had to take place at work at a specif...
KATHLEEN KELLEY I wasn't talking to you, Lynch. I need someone with a soul.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Merrill has come a long way.
LINDA FRIEDMAN In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from ...
TYLER COWEN I'm a big David Lynch fan.
JONATHAN DAVIS I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
BARRY MANN What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
JERRY GARCIA Merrill ends up with just as much exposure, if not more, to the asset management business as they di...
CRAIG WOKER I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent Ne...
BILLY GARDELL Nat Broderick had several good chances to score as did Hardy Merrill. We're a young team, so I was h...
TIM TIERNEY Actually, I didn't know that. I like to name my characters after baseball players. Alan Trammell of ...
JOE ESZTERHAS Robert Merrill is a human highlight tape.
DAN MCCARNEY Making Ronan Lynch smile felt as charged as making a bargain with Cabeswater. These were not forces ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER Online brokers face a lot of challenges with technical issues -- Merrill is no different. They aren'...
PAUL JOHNSON We have been betting since 1990 that the American public had changed their attitude toward housing a...
RON MUHLENKAMP We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspir...
OSWALD CHAMBERS I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA I am looking at investments in China as I used to in a different incarnation,
HANK GREENBERG You cannot look at Sam and think about Sam without knowing about the gadgets.
LINDA GOLODNER This report highlights the current gap in federal oversight that is a major problem and needs immedi...
CARL LEVIN Trammell and (pitching coach Bob) Cluck told me after the third that they were going to take me out....
JASON JOHNSON In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN Nobody tagged Sam as a fire-breathing conservative,
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SAM TRAMMELL I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because...
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SAM TRAMMELL When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you ...
SAM TRAMMELL There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
SAM TRAMMELL It is easy to second-guess me, but it was my call. I'd like someone to give me a guarantee that Davi...
ALAN TRAMMELL I just think with the options we have that it's my best option, ... even though he has not pitched w...
ALAN TRAMMELL In 2003, (Bonderman) was the best guy for the job, to be honest with you. We didn't have guys in the...
ALAN TRAMMELL I don't think Jeremy was sharp. Velocity-wise he was fine, but location he was not. He didn't have i...
ALAN TRAMMELL He had a cramp and just couldn't get rid of it. He was in the dugout later in the game, so that was ...
ALAN TRAMMELL I'm not counting on it. I'd like to say maybe he'd be available to pinch-hit, but as far as playing ...
ALAN TRAMMELL He started in Double-A and made it to Triple-A, which is a good sign,
ALAN TRAMMELL This is exactly what the Detroit Tigers need. He's what I call a good ballplayer who does a little b...
ALAN TRAMMELL He doesn't appear to let things bother him. That was a tough situation.
ALAN TRAMMELL This guy is so valuable, we want to make sure he's OK. Hopefully it's just one start.
ALAN TRAMMELL There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW Whether I'm there or not, I'll always be a Tiger, and I'll always root for the Tigers.
ALAN TRAMMELL It's pressure,
ALAN TRAMMELL He felt it warming up a little bit, but thought it was nothing,
ALAN TRAMMELL We got a few runs off Colon and that was very pleasing. It feels great to win here.
ALAN TRAMMELL Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This yea...
ALAN TRAMMELL One guy we'll call up for sure is Marcus Thames .
ALAN TRAMMELL I think everybody in the ballpark was thinking 'could it happen?' ... but there's no category for al...
ALAN TRAMMELL Those guys are celebrating and they deserve it.
ALAN TRAMMELL We've said it before, when Carlos Pena hits a home run -- wow! That might be the furthest ball ever ...
ALAN TRAMMELL I told him I'd need to take some time to make some decisions, and he was fine with that. I'd like to...
ALAN TRAMMELL How important is he to the club? My gosh, he's at the top of the list.
ALAN TRAMMELL If I leave, I leave with my head high, ... I know in my own mind we're making some headway, I believ...
ALAN TRAMMELL But it was a heck of a performance by our bullpen. Obviously it will be forgotten, but they deserve ...
ALAN TRAMMELL Thank God you didn't do that to him, ... Your dog, maybe, but not your son. They would have picked o...
ALAN TRAMMELL There's a lot of work to be done. They don't deny it.
ALAN TRAMMELL Nothing's been promised, ... It was an opportunity to talk baseball and tell them why I think I'm a ...
ALAN TRAMMELL Really, I'm OK. I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
ALAN TRAMMELL I'm sure we'll discuss quite a few things, to be honest with you.
ALAN TRAMMELL I hope I get to continue with this because there is some unfinished business. I'm going to be in bas...
ALAN TRAMMELL We broke out today, it's been awhile.
ALAN TRAMMELL Somewhere after the All-Star break he started dropping down a little more, especially to the right-h...
ALAN TRAMMELL The first three innings were the key. We had a lot of opportunities, but we didn't score. That came ...
ALAN TRAMMELL You give them a little avenue, ... and you saw what happened.
ALAN TRAMMELL I'd say, right now, he's their ace. They have a few aces as far as I'm concerned.
ALAN TRAMMELL Monday will be a big day. But I'm fine. I'm not worried about it. I'll deal with it.
ALAN TRAMMELL I don't want a setback,
ALAN TRAMMELL Inexcusable. It really bothers me.
ALAN TRAMMELL Back to one run again -- that's not going to cut it. Score one run and there's a low percentage of w...
ALAN TRAMMELL I think there's a possibility he'll be activated this weekend.
ALAN TRAMMELL You would like to hold them off as long as possible and to be honest, we did that. Congratulations t...
ALAN TRAMMELL In the sixth, not being able to block the ball, that was huge. We might still be playing. ... We did...
ALAN TRAMMELL If those comments stir things up a little bit, that's OK, because we're all accountable,
ALAN TRAMMELL He's a little taller (in his batting stance), a little more aggressive to the ball. He's not collaps...
ALAN TRAMMELL [Manager Alan Trammell wouldn't put a timetable on when Guillen might return to the lineup.] There's...
ALAN TRAMMELL In my opinion, it's a sleeping giant.
ALAN TRAMMELL Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nerv...
ALAN TRAMMELL Down the stretch, we've been struggling with our pitching staff, but he's taken the ball. He's been ...
ALAN TRAMMELL This is a big win for the playoff situation,
ALAN TRAMMELL We're doing our job,
ALAN TRAMMELL I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, ... but if he continues like this, we'd have to rethink some...
ALAN TRAMMELL There's no question this guy has a special arm, but he's still a little raw.
ALAN TRAMMELL We both came in and worked. We were both getting sicker and sicker and sicker by the day.
DENISE TRAMMELL I'm afraid of not getting support or not being able to see our regular customers. They're important ...
DENISE TRAMMELL Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes dou...
DENISE TRAMMELL I decided today when the smoke poured through the serving window and I had to move away from the gri...
DENISE TRAMMELL Our area central and southern Minnesota has taken the brunt of it.
KAREN TRAMMELL I give those guys credit over there, ... They have a worse record. They're battling. And that's what...
ALAN TRAMMELL My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
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