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Kin Hubbard Quotes

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 1, 1868 - December 26, 1930

Topics

Ignorance Neighbor Newspaper Bliss

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Water Me Pool Carry Float Just

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Daily Past Opinion Present Media

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Memories Time Myself Past Thinking

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Life Love Women Men Together Door

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

John T. Chambers

Team Saying Advice Decisions You

God is the perfect poet.

Robert Browning

God Poetry Perfect Poet

Sometimes when you push something or you force something too much, the progress doesn't happen the way it should.

Progress Push You Too Much Sometimes

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Life Luck Blessed Think Living Draw

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Hope Adventure Story Friends Say

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

People Name Go Teachers English Who

I had spent years in the United States military. Specifically in the U.S. Navy.

Navy Military Years United States

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

Christine Baranski

Music Focus Energy Comedy Hard Like

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