James Wolcott Quotes
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
James Wolcott
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
Rachel Platten
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
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We shred every day.
Fawn Hall
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
A. P. Herbert
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
Garth Brooks
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
Taron Egerton
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
Carl Safina
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
Damon Galgut
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I got through college.
Daniel Craig
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
Lois Lowry
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe
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Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
Kenneth Branagh
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By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.
Eric Flint
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There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.
Jason Ritter
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Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
James Wolcott
