Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
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Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
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We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
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A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
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Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
