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He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.


Denis Johnson

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DENIS LEARY Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving...
DENIS LEARY Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experie...
DENIS WAITLEY I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and...
DENIS LEARY I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use ma...
DENIS LEARY George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, mo...
DENIS LEARY The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ...
DENIS LEARY I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all ...
DENIS LEARY What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
CLAIRE DENIS We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROT The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my...
DENIS LEARY Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their...
DENIS WAITLEY Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have b...
DENIS WAITLEY We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor...
DENIS KEARNEY I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I wou...
DENIS O'HARE Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that ...
DENIS DIDEROT The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is al...
DENIS WAITLEY