Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

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 prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Angela Sarafyan

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Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Jeff Bridges

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We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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People essentially like local news better than network news.

Roone Arledge

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I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

David Walton

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Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

Aretha Franklin

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I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Pia Zadora

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When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio.

Rza

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We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

Mark Morris

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I don't like to get involved in any bashing at all.

Kevin Dillon

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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

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