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Jimmy Breslin [1930-0] American

Rank: 103
Entertainer, Journalist

Jimmy Breslin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News Sunday edition.

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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.		101
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.		102
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.		103
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.		104
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!		105
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.		106
Media, the plural of mediocrity.		107
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.		108
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.		109
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.		110
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.		111
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.		112
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?		113
Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.		114
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.		115
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.		116
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.		117
I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.		118
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.		119
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.		120
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.		121
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.		122

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