Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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Cuando me conformo con nada es cuando me conformo de todo.
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I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.
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Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.
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The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.
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Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
