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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Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.
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Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.
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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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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
