Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
Bart Chilton
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Carl Lewis
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All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.
David Coverdale
Whitesnake
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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
Oprah Winfrey
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland
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I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.
Jeff Kinney
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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
