Lefties Quotes

• Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

  Arthur Baer

  Past, Lambs, Grove

  "The greatest pitcher of all time?" by David Schoenfield, www.espn.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

  Rick Danko

  Country, Uncles, Artist

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• Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

  Frank Rich

  Causes

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• Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.

  Nick Cohen

  Media, Attacking, Former

  "The Rebels who changed their tune to be pundits". New Statesman, August 12, 2002.

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• To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

  Herman Melville

  Left Handers, Literature, Compliment

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.520, Library of America

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• I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control the sandbox, and I am trying to orchestrate media that isn't just out there to push the right-of-center Libertarian narrative, I'm out there to destroy the false order, the false control that the left has in controlling the mainstream media in America.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Media, Order, America

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Brain, Left Hand, Sides

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2191, e-artnow

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• I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

  William Goldman

  Left Hand, Princess Bride, Princes Bride

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• Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Bumps, Facts, Moral

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• All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Blow, Left Hand, Complacency

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Powerful, Left Handers

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• Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

  Philip Schuyler

  Philosophy, Self, People

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• The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Vocabulary, Political

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• The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

  George Orwell

  Real, Division, Libertarian

  George Orwell's letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (December 4, 1948), as quoted in Ian Hunter "Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life", 1980.

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• Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

  George Orwell

  Average, Would Be, Literature

  "What is Science?". Tribune, orwell.ru. October 26, 1945.

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• Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

  Bob Beauprez

  Thrones, Radical, Democrat

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• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  Parker Posey

  Cousin, Dad, Grandfather

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2008.

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• I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, Kids, Men

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• My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a ride she gets from evil mustache-twirling elites and RINO saboteurs, she sounds like a professional victimologist, the flip side of any lefty grievance group leader. She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition. The only difference being, she wears naughty-librarian glasses instead of a James Brown ‘do.

  Matt Labash

  Eye, Naughty, Differences

  "Palin 'becoming Al Sharpton'?". www.politico.com. 2012.

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• The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Believe, Goal

  "Football's debt to socialism" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2010.

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• I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

  Josh Charles

  Softball, Kids, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

  Marc Maron

  People, Guy, Political

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any point of my career. I fought every style you could think of - righty, lefty, tall, short, power-puncher, fast guys, counter guys, so for me it is the norm - training for guys with different styles.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

  Jill Sobule

  Whole, Patron

  Source: therumpus.net

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