Josh Billings Quotes
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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And if I was found to be good for two awards, it doesn't mean I should be given just one just to make the awards look more democratic.
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They make a desolation and call it peace.
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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
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I'll tell you, nobody was more excited than me, in the entire world, that there is a 'Silicon Valley' Funko set.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
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It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
