Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period. Even if his own inward strength does not throw it off, the rubbings of the world generally smooth it down.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Never trust a skinny cook.
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'Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.
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Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.
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A man rarely carries his shyness past the hobbledehoy period. Even if his own inward strength does not throw it off, the rubbings of the world generally smooth it down.
