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Josh Billings Quotes

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

Topics

Age Old Age Youth Run Difficulties

The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.

Jerry Della Femina

People Advertising Better Feel You

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Painting Feeling Word Another

Once you're famous you can't go back.

Matthew Morrison

Famous You Back Go Once

I can't prove it, but I can say it.

Stephen Colbert

I Can Say Prove

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

World Start Powerful Say Everything

We need to enact comprehensive immigration reform, to bring people out of the shadows and empower them to more fully and freely participate in their communities and the economy. And we need to invest in our nation's deteriorating infrastructure - investments that would create jobs and benefit all sectors of the economy.

People Immigration Create Shadows

Conservatism as a formal political doctrine didn't exist in America in 1940. The word 'conservative' was associated primarily with fringe groups - anti-industrial Southern agrarians and the anti-New Deal tycoons who led the Liberty League.

Political America Liberty Exist Deal

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Space Touch Devotion Secret Sacred

Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.

Best Personality You Audience Half

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

Love You Artist Review Critic Would

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

Birthday Son Cake Grace Chocolate

One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.

Great Challenge Day People Help You

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