James Boswell Quotes
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba
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I'm very open-minded.
Gabrielle Reece
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan
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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.
Mahershala Ali
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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.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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.
Iman
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Samantha Bee
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.
Walter Lang
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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.
Kate Micucci
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
Carl Hagelin
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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.
J. B. Priestley
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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.
Camille Paglia
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Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
Martha Beck
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When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.
Zach Klein
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I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
Kabir
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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
