James Boswell Quotes
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
Barton Gellman
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
Walter Kirn
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
Vidal Sassoon
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
Olivia Thirlby
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
Randy Newman
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
Karen Handel
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Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
Madchen Amick
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Ice T
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
Ram Charan
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
Utada Hikaru
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
Salma Hayek
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The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
Andrei Codrescu
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Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian Tracy
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Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.
George Herbert Palmer
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I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.
James Boswell