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Josh Billings Quotes

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Best Man Pride Never Temporary Who

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

Gangster Shoulders Criminal Sure He

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

Jennifer Weiner

Stand Long You Back Go Singer

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Women Future Hands Look Young Now

I like to write at home a lot.

Home Write Like Lot

I'm not a private person. I like hanging out and talking to fans. But my life isn't so interesting that you want to see the inside of it.

Lisa Lampanelli

Life Interesting My Life Talking You

What too many of Mr. Trump's supporters want is an American strongman, a president who will make the proverbial trains run on time.

Time American Want Run Will Who

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Time Tomorrow Evening Poverty Will

I don't live in Los Angeles. I work in Los Angeles, and even that - I audition in Los Angeles; I very rarely film in Los Angeles. I don't hang out with producers on my off-hours, so I don't even know what that world is like.

Work Live World Los Angeles Know

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Good Best Sympathy World Always

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Future Time Media Done Way Beyond

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Effort Jump Lazy Task Through Means

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

Choices Think Paths Bad Down Go

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