Jo Whiley (Johanne Morton Whiley) Quotes
It’s too easy to hate these days, to forget there’s someone just doing their thing, on the receiving end of such hostility.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
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I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
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The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
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I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
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Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.
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Don't try to live too many days at a time.
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Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.
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Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.
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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
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Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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It’s too easy to hate these days, to forget there’s someone just doing their thing, on the receiving end of such hostility.
