Edward Gibbon Quotes
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
Omari Hardwick
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
Laura Ramsey
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
Nancy Travis
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
Olivia Wilde
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
Ramez Naam
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I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.
Colson Whitehead
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I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!
Cynthia Nixon
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
King James I
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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
Hannah Arendt
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
Omar Bongo
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon
