Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
