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.
Gary Valentine -
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.
Karl Kraus -
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia -
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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
Nancy Pearcey -
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.
Patricia MacLachlan -
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Obama -
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.
Taylor Dayne
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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.
LaToya Jackson -
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
Adam Cohen -
We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
Gary Barlow Take That -
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry -
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama -
I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.
Larry King
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'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
Pawel Pawlikowski -
What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
Fran Tarkenton -
It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.
George Allen -
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby -
I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
Dana Plato -
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell