James Boswell Quotes
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I'm very open-minded.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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MT Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
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What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.
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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
