Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.
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I was really shy as a kid.
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I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
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It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.
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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.
