Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
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All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
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Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
