James Boswell Quotes
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
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I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.
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One who by himself is mild enough and void of all offence will become terrible and fierce by being in bad company, and will most cruelly take the life of many men, and would kill many more if they were not hindered by bodies having no soul, that have come out of caverns - that is, breastplates of iron.
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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
