James Boswell Quotes
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
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You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
