Why the Hell Not?


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I don't apologize to people with an agenda.
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Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
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You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
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I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
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A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
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I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
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Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
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When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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The only thing wrong with Southern Baptists was they didn't hold them underwater long enough.
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Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign, ... I think we've got a real, real shot.
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I'm a gambler, and now I'm betting on Texas,
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If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
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Whatever we're going to do, we're going to make it fun.
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This is really happening. It isn't a dream, or maybe it is, but it's one long, long overdue.
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I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain
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How sad for him to be hoping for a small turnout.
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It's not a slam dunk.
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness . . . but I did not swallow.
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I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the ...
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
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We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
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I've always said that this campaign is running on the coin of the spirit. I've also said a journey o...
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I've always thought that she was pretty spunky. I like her spirit.
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Many of us feel that the soul of Texas may be riding on this campaign. I would dearly love to be num...
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Texas can lead the country. We won't be slaves to the Middle East.
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The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
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I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.
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People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.
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It seems to me the governor has just discovered we have a border.
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The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
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If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.
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They always felt like hell, so why not?
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The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
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If everything isn't black and white, I say, "Why the hell not?"
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(Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teach...
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If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.
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I love you and all your kinky fuckery
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Kinky doesn't have a platform, he has common sense.
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Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it?
J. D. SALINGER
Why, the hell, do people take kindness for weakness?!
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Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone
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Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
JONAH GOLDBERG
I got elected--why the hell should I back off?
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I guess that's why they call it Hell.
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
TERRY PRATCHETT
I don't think that Kinky is a rich man, but he does OK.
DEAN BARKLEY
If it makes you happy, why the hell are you so sad?
SHERYL CROW
What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
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I think everybody knows that Kinky likes to go to Vegas. That's no secret.
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If you're comfortable in your nudity, why the hell do you need clothes?
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What the hell, Cade? You knew, and you never thought . . . ‘Hey, maybe I should tell my
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We are born free. We die free. Why the hell don't we live free?
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This is a classic change-of-scenery trade involving two former No. 1 draft picks that are still youn...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN
Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Ree...
ROBIN FRIEDMAN
There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that yo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Glo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. F...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. I...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless bo...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middl...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN
If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, an...
ADENA FRIEDMAN
I didn't see your backbone. I felt like you were sleeping though the lyrical dance.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
It allows your car to run on straight vegetable oil just the same way you would on diesel, with very...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
I knew once one person had one, their friend would get one, and their neighbor would get one and it ...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
To be honest, I never wanted to live in L.A.. I like this area, but L.A.'s a pit, sorry. I'm from Sa...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
They were getting progressively violent.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
Your fox trot is the smoothest I've seen yet.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
It's not a hippie experiment anymore, ... It actually works and it works really well.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the wo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN