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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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

Topics

Knowledge World Only Closet Acquired

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Blues Jazz Exhausted Got After

Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

Silly Now First Right Always Tie

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Michael Shermer

Thinking Seeing Believing Rational

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Love Time Food Best Love Is Space

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

Diane von Furstenberg

Strength Mother Courage Style Myself

I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.

Children Hurt Back Go Want Never

This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Myself Man Black Look Honest Threat

When women told me they'd always wished they had a sister, they were thinking of this ideal of mutual encouragement and support. Many of those who have sisters also yearn for this ideal because their relationships with their sisters don't always live up to it.

Women Live Support Me Sister Always

If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

More See I See Up Show Throw

The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy.

Justice Shoes Challenge Moment Step

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Band Radio Sense Like Seven Album

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

Music Think Rock Band Up Us

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