Kin Hubbard Quotes

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HonestyPeopleEnoughSome People

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

Jimmy Buffett

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If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

BeautifulWalkYourselfValuePeople

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Andrew Young

SchoolMeWhiteNowSingleThings

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.

John Wooden

WinGameYouLoseSomebody

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

John Podhoretz

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When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.

Troy Duffy

WritingYouDownWriteAnythingSit

I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for 'Overpowered,' and I loved spending it! It was like making a little movie.

Roisin Murphy

WorkLoveLovedPicturesHardFour

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

Mary Gaitskill

MeYouSaidWantWriteFiction

I'm not a singer. I've sung in character, but it's just not my thing.

Josh Pais

CharacterSingerJustThingSung

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.

Deborah Harkness

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To be honest, my first instinct when I heard about the 'Greendale' project was that it was a licensing thing. As I learned more about the project, I saw how pure it was.

Cliff Chiang

MoreFirstProjectPureHonestSaw

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

Ariel Dorfman

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