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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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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I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I really have fun doing music for visuals and stuff.
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In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
