- John Jay
(12/12/1745 – 05/17/1829)
US Postmaster, replying to a petitioner who wanted his picture on a postage stamp (I suspect this is apocryphal. -qk)
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"We cannot put the face on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead."
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"I feel very old sometimes... I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of sh*t on the heads of my fellow men."
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"The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in."
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"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
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"I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me."
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| "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college." |  |
| "Nobody could imagine just how terrible McCarthyism would be. So many careers went down the toilet." |  |
"Hands off the threads, creep."
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"Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm this fact."
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"Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what he feels about dogs."
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| "I didn't know anything about speed or diet pills, but they gave me these little red pills, like Benzadrine, that you can only buy in Mexico now." |  |
"I'm not trying to sell sex. I just don't like wearing a lot of clothes onstage."
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"You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences—good or bad—and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!"
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"I don't remember ever having finished a book."
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