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Josh Billings Quotes

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Advice Opinions You Own Come

I know people who have literally quit their jobs to spend more time with their children, and I go, 'Wow,' my dad used to go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd come back at 7:30 and we'd kind of see him walk in and then he'd go upstairs and suddenly he'd be in a T-shirt and grumpy. There wasn't much in the way of conversation that went on.

Work Morning Children Time Walk

My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and yet I find it impossible not to think of myself as a dad-in-training when I listen to it.

Love Myself Impossible Think Find

For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.

Life Work Art Clothes Real Wear

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

Good Best People Choices Plan More

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Dreams Us Sense Again Our

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

Government Mind Lesson Play Possible

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

College Europe Harvard Ease Tour

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

Work Truth Men World View Own

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

Life Think Person Know Whatever How

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

Stress Blue Face I Can Say Level

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

Mary Steenburgen

Child Think You Know Inside Secret

A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.

Best People Me Speed Jump Know

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