James Boswell Quotes
My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
James Boswell
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
Randy Newman
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
Magnus Scheving
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
Sam Yagan
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
Nate Silver
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
Fabiola Gianotti
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
Hansika Motwani
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
Halima Aden
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
Paddy Considine
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
Eden Hazard
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Marshall Goldsmith
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I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
Jodi Picoult
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I remember clearly the afternoon I sat down with Obama. In December 2006, he was preparing for a family trip, and the decision to run weighed heavily on his mind. As a progressive member of Congress from Illinois, I was excited and energized by the prospect of my senator, and my friend, running for president.
Luis Gutierrez
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I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.
Paula Pell
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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
James Boswell
