James Boswell Quotes
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.James Boswell
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine -
I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
Lady Gaga -
Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
Patrick Lencioni -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde -
A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
Jack Lowden
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Van Morrison -
I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
J. B. Pritzker -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi -
As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
Barry Jenkins -
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Adam Gopnik
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
Kailash Kher -
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth -
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Natasha Trethewey -
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May -
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
Ralph Kiner -
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.
Kevin Brady -
It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.
P. L. Travers -
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
Jill Abramson -
The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.
Daniel Handler -
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.
James Boswell