Washington Irving Quotes
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
Quotes to Explore
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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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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer
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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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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
Sam Worthington
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I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.
Christopher McCulloch
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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
Alexander Payne
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Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
Oprah Winfrey
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
