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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I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.
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We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
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I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
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The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.
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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
