Josh Billings Quotes
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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When in doubt, do it.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
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I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
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I don't ever put down bands.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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I try to teach my kids to be open.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.
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My mom has helped me so much. She has great style, and she's an amazing dresser.
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Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
