Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.
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This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.
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When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.
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We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking.
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Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.
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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
