Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Ian Watson -
I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent -
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson -
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis -
Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
J. D. Vance
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
Pat Robertson -
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson -
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
Hanna Rosin -
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn -
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
Larry Holmes
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni -
Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Jack Wild
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Stephen Covey -
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
Oswald Chambers -
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
Carrot Top -
'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
Viktor Orban -
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Douglas Jerrold