Josh Billings Quotes
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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I was really a shy kid.
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Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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'(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'
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I might do a work to put me in contact with the god Mercury. If the information I get from that is valuable to me, and new enough, it doesn’t really matter whether the god Mercury is there at all, does it? There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named.
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I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.
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My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
