Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

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I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

Joe Arpaio

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I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.

Joel McHale

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When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

Robert Rodriguez

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People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.

Tony Conrad

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Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

Ruben Blades

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On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.

Lizzy Caplan

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Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.

David Suzuki

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Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.

Brenton Thwaites

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When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.

Bobby Keys

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I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

Bryant Gumbel

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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

Annie Leibovitz

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I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.

Woody Hayes

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