James Thurber Quotes
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.
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Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
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In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
