A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
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I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
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If you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.
Etel Adnan -
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
