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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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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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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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
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It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.
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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
