Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
Rachel Johnson -
One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
Mac DeMarco -
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang -
I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
Zoe Kravitz -
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde -
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
Harland Williams -
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames -
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Samuel Johnson -
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli -
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
Enzo Ferrari -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw
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Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.
Salman Khan -
I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
Doris Day -
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Stevie Wonder -
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
Stevie Wonder -
The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
Oswald Chambers -
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
Oscar Wilde
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
Beatrice Dalle -
Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
Sadie Jones -
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
Elvis Costello -
Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight.
Lao Tzu -
He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
Rudyard Kipling