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Julian Baggini Quotes

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

Julian Baggini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

Life Daily Job Daily Life People

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

Jennifer Ellison

Love First Always First Love Act

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Dalberg-Acton

Mother Democracy Revolution Powerful

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Stephen Fry

Love Children Me Drive Literature

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

Ronaldo

Space Criticism Want Nonsense Just

Whether you're praying, meditating, you're getting silent, relaxing your mind... and you definitely want to train hard - in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it.

Mike Daniels

Mind You Train Want Silent Need

My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form of a white powder and cream. I don't actually know what was in it because when you're young, you're not interested in skincare, and I didn't want to walk around the house with a white face.

Michelle Yeoh

Walk Face You House White Skin

I want to use but not misuse my position as President of the General Assembly.

Miroslav Lajcak

Want President Position General Use

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

Juan Gabriel

Sleep You Person Write Eat Out

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

Josiah Warren

Confused Personal Decline Noisy

When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Morning Coffee Me Evening Doing Hot

You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

Ashton Kutcher

Great Romantic Effort Face Think

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

Wolfman Jack

I Am Tired Care Little Beatles Just