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bummed
«There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.»
Author: Floyd Dell
| Keywords:
bum, bummed, bums, cigarettes, emulate, emulates, emulating, sticks, sums, The Teacher, The Village, village, whittle, whittled, whittles
«Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.»
Author: Marlon Brando
(Actor)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
afforded, bum, bummed, bums, principal, psychoanalysis
«The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.»
«In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
| Keywords:
booze, bummed, bums, businessman, decent, feeding, indistinguishable, painter, shabbier, shabby, spaghetti
«I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if you raise a million pounds within an hour.»
«I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affair, anyway, bum, bummed, bums, love affair, quit, tragic