Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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Fairy-tales are nice.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.
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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
