Jonathan Tropper Quotes

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

Jonathan Tropper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1970

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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Jeremy Taylor

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As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

Trevor Noah

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Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Tom G. Palmer

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I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.

Joss Whedon

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There was nothing girlish about me. I wore clothes hand-stitched by my mother... I had only one ear pierced and preferred loose shirts and trousers. I think I was imitating my father!

Divyanka Tripathi

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The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chick Corea

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I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.

Bradley Byrne

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The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Anton Seidl

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Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

William Godwin

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Fame is a bit Nietzschean. For everything good, something bad happens to you, so you have to sort of be careful.

Noel Fielding

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain

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When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

Letitia Baldrige

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