John Tillotson Quotes
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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Silence is my dignity.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.
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To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
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I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.
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The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.
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Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
