Lincoln Steffens Quotes

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Lincoln Steffens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1866 - August 9, 1936

Topics

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The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Joe Montana

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It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Matt Damon

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I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

Ann Leckie

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I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

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The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

John Sebastian

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Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

Julia Roberts

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I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.

Desiree Rogers

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Pretty much, I was a hometown fighter, and everyone was pulling for me. Now I'm a hometown fighter again. It's a lot of pressure because you don't want to let people down. They're yelling your name and chanting for you.

Brian Ortega

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I like PSG, but not Ligue 1.

Antoine Griezmann

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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

Alice Ripley

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As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

Priscilla Presley

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