Washington Irving Quotes
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I seemed to have been born reading.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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I won't join another band again.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
Salma Hayek
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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I got a big mouth.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
Rachel Cusk
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
Ira Sachs
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
Omari Hardwick
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
Irene Rosenfeld
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright
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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
Allen Johnson
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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
George Gurdjieff
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Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
Craig Newmark
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
