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Josh Billings Quotes

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Perfection Man World Die Enjoy He

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

Life Work Story My Life You Kids

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Great Tree Feet Grow Down Become

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

Late Chess Out Too Late Playing

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

Play Will Rough Like

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Loved American Early Cinema Movies

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Trombone Shorty

Time Responsibility People Grow Up

I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'

Wait You Say Want Will See

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

Morning Light Breakfast Lunch Start

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

Friend Yourself Me Singing World

As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.

Joseph Wambaugh

Integrity People Kind Hollywood More

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

Jonathan Tropper

Work Experience People Discomfort

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Christopher Alexander

Nature World Isolation View You

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