Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
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I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.
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I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his Obama's historical ignorance.
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
