Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
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Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
