Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies.
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Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance, that will look the largest which is surrounded by the darkest background.
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But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.
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The American public does not know poets exist.
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It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.
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I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? How hard can it be to change gears and say, 'You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.' (p. 177)
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Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
