Benjamin Jowett Quotes
Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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I'm very self-critical.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.
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… exclude the need for appearances: what counts is not appearances; the value of life does not depend on the approval of others or on success, but on what we have inside us.
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Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
