Irv Kupcinet Quotes

#1. A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

Irv Kupcinet

#2. Don't go to Men about God. Go to God about Men.

Todd Stocker

#3. As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

Irv Kupcinet

#4. The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

Jon Stewart

#5. What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

#6. I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

Irv Kupcinet

#7. Find something that is a happy, healthy alternative to hurting yourself, as opposed to taking a razor blade to yourself because at the end of the day, you're only hurting the most important person in the world and that's you. And you don't want to hurt that person.

Andy Biersack

#8. By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

Irv Kupcinet

#9. Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

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#10. I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

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#11. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

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#12. Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

Irv Kupcinet

#13. 'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.

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#14. I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

Rowan Atkinson

#15. My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

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#16. I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that ... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

Roberto Azevedo

#17. My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.

Irv Kupcinet

#18. Being happy is not the only happiness.

Alice Walker