Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
A poor gasping, blushing creature, with trembling knees and twitching hands, is a painful sight to every one, and if it cannot cure itself, the sooner it goes and hangs itself the better.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.
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No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
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That's my one rule: always take off my makeup; no matter how tired I am before going to bed, it comes off!
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A poor gasping, blushing creature, with trembling knees and twitching hands, is a painful sight to every one, and if it cannot cure itself, the sooner it goes and hangs itself the better.
