Edmund Gosse Quotes

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

Edmund Gosse

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• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

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• I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.

  

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• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
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• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

  

  Harry Anderson
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• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
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• Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'

  

  Kate Mara
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• I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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• Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

  

  Vandana Shiva

• But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

  

  Aristotle
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• Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
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• To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music, and that, when you say "hip-hop," it's synonymous with rap. That when you say "hip-hop," you should be thinking about breakdancing, graffiti art, or MCing - which is the proper name for rap - DJing, beat-boxing, language, fashion, knowledge, trade. You should be thinking about a culture when you say, "hip-hop.".

  

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• People are working hard in the USA to make things. And I want to help them do it even more.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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  • USA

• Life is short, and nobody knows what's around the corner, but I'm up for lots of new challenges.

  

  Ashley Roberts
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• I'll campaign for anyone who's honest and who I like, irrespective of the party.

  

  Mithun Chakraborty
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• Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Blame
  • Praise
  • Careful