James Boswell Quotes
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
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They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
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To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order.
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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.
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For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.
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The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.
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People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
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Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.
