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Class is inherited. Calibre is earned. – Raymond Zar	added by rz_1 1 year ago
I think Bob Marley was the first really big international star to come to Ireland to play an outdoor show, nobody of that kind of calibre was fronting a whole revolution in music... he was more than a rock figure, he was fronting a cultural revolution. – Pat Egan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are a niche, exclusive agency, not a mainstream, mass-market online dating service. We are not going to have thousands of members because there simply aren’t thousands of single, wealthy, high-calibre prospects out there, [Burki’s] remarks about us being a non-reputable and fraudulent company were deemed untrue and entirely without foundation. – Susie Ambrose	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. – Don Marquis	added by anonymous 9 years ago

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

– Raymond Zar

added by rz_1
1 year ago

I think Bob Marley was the first really big international star to come to Ireland to play an outdoor show, nobody of that kind of calibre was fronting a whole revolution in music... he was more than a rock figure, he was fronting a cultural revolution.

– Pat Egan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are a niche, exclusive agency, not a mainstream, mass-market online dating service. We are not going to have thousands of members because there simply aren’t thousands of single, wealthy, high-calibre prospects out there, [Burki’s] remarks about us being a non-reputable and fraudulent company were deemed untrue and entirely without foundation.

– Susie Ambrose

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

– Don Marquis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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