Joseph Mitchell Quotes

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Joseph Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 27, 1908 - May 24, 1996

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Pizza is no longer on my diet.

John Catsimatidis

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When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

Anderson Cooper

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My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.

Matt Mullenweg

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I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

Michael Douglas

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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Stephen Covey

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You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.

Sloan Wilson

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I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

Tom Ford

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I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

Monique Coleman

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McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph R. McCarthy

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My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

Joseph Parker

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Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

Dermot Mulroney

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