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“The only reason that I’ve become my own fire department is that I’ve become my own arsonist.”

Wisdom Choices Politics Fire Fool Foolish Consequences Fire Department Arsonist

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.”

People Seems Fire Taxes Benefits Connections Police Protection Department Straightforward Free Education Fire Department Police Protection

Author:Michael Schur

“I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.”

Firsts Littles Three Fire Week Models Cameras Caught Stealing Department Mum Bedroom Grounded Drapes Fire Department

Author:Michael Bay

“In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”

Ifs Needs Writing America Order United States Fire Red Garden England Characteristics Department Telephones Vivid Procedures Solicitors Fire Department English Love

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!”

Should Today Fire Busy Department Chicago Belly Too Busy Fire Department

Author:Lady Gaga

“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.”

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Author:Kate O'Beirne

“It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.”

Fire Normal Ordinary Favors Department Socialist Perfectly Normal Fire Department

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.”

People Knows America Know How Fire Ill Department Urban North America Underpaid Fire Department

Author:Denis Leary

“Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.”

Jobs Guy Fire New York Tests Passing Fats Passings Department Friction Life Or Death Fire Department

Author:Denis Leary

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

Firsts Fire Four Complaining Department Complaints Bras Dumb Blonde Fire Department

Author:Dolly Parton

“There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.”

Fire Locals Department Volunteer Fire Department

Author:Bobby Scott

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”

Way Looks House Fire Window Crisis Department Locked Trapped Upstairs One Tree Hill Voiceover One Tree Hill Opening Fire Department Leavers

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play

“This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?”

Thinking Men Helping Fire Weak Asking Department Toilets Weak Man Fire Department

Book:Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

“The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.”

Fire Architecture Priorities Burning Department Burning Down Fire Department

Author:Justin Davidson

“It's not a party until the fire department shows up.”

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Author:Thom Filicia

“New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.”

Ifs Use Church Pay Fire Praying Taxes Rain Sorry Department Reverends Fire Department

Author:Bill Maher

“Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department.”

Boys Fire Baby Hip Hop Department Baby Boy Fire Department

Author:Cam'ron

“Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department”

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Author:Diane Ravitch

“Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.”

War Political Politics Fire Military Department Against War Fire Department

Author:Jim McDonough

“You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.”

Ifs Way May Has Beens Might Difficult Black Water Fire Sadness Sad Smoke Landscape Department Over You Distracted Damp Fire Department

Author:Daniel Handler

“What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.”

Needs Inspiration Able Motivation Fire Plans Internet Performances Police Independent Department Plan B Police Department Fire Department

Author:Danny Hillis

“You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.”

Way Needs Wells Next Fire Plans Team Events Shapes Capable Ordinary Planning Department Efficient Anticipate Responding Energetic Fire Department

Author:Andy Grove