Maury Quotes

• I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

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  Carol Leifer

  Light   White   People  

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• Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.

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  Robert H. Jackson

  Thinking   People   Democracy  

  Speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in 1939. "America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson" by Eugene C. Gerhart, 1958.

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• The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

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  Geraldo Rivera

  Numbers   People   Needs  

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• Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  One Day   Noble   Firsts  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.104, VM eBooks

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• You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

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  Joe McNally

  Photography   Light   Sprinkles  

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.110, Pearson Education

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• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

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  Connie Chung

  Daughter   Mother   Son  

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• Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever joined somebody else's civil war. I think they were primarily people who were deeply alarmed by the menace of fascism. They saw this on the horizon. I quote one volunteer, Maury Colow of New York, who said, "for us it was never Franco, it was always Hitler."

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  Adam Hochschild

  New York   War   Thinking  

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.

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  NeNe Leakes

  Baby   Daddy   Want  

  "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

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  Tom Seaver

  Player   Years   Games  

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• I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.

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  Brent Spiner

  New York   People   Broadway  

  Source: www.avclub.com

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