James Boswell Quotes
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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..the thing was to choose one a ready-made object that you were not attracted by.. ..and that was difficult because anything becomes beautiful if you look at it long enough.. .My intention was to completely eliminate the existence of taste, bad or good or indifferent.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
