James Thurber Quotes
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
Quotes to Explore
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
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If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
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What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
