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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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
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TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
