James Boswell Quotes
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I love anything to do with history.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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But more overt sexual aggression may be the product of something few will acknowledge, at least on the record: Resentment. Off the record, in dozens of interviews over a period of years, male soldiers and officers have confided that many men resent women because they've been forced to pretend that women are equals, and men know they're not.
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I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.
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When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
