Nick Tosches Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht -
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru -
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld -
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
J. D. Vance -
I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
Washed Out
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
Eddie Redmayne -
Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
Candice Olson -
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Dana Rohrabacher -
We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
Narendra Modi -
The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Ira Gershwin -
Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
Wallace Stevens
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Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.
Don Rickles -
You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
Ian Holloway -
When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.
Aristotle -
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
Jules Michelet -
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana -
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
Nick Tosches