James Boswell Quotes
My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me ye women if you can.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart. Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my couture.Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric. In other words, I reposition how I sit it. Then make you feel it, like I mispronounced 'filet.'
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Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
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An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
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I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.
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A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)
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If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
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My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.
