Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

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• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

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• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

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• We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

  

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• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

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• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  

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• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

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• I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

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• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

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• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
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• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  

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• To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

  

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• We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.

  

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• If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

  

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• It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

  

  Ang Lee
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• In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Life
  • Trust