Howard Jacobson Quotes

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

Howard Jacobson

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AchievementBe NiceNicePopularity

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

Jhumpa Lahiri

HealthWomanStoryProblemsYoung

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

Johann Most

GodPromisesImproveBreakDisease

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

John Conyers

HealthTimeCareAmericaNow

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

Ruben Studdard

HealthWorldWellnessPersonWant

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Rufus Wainwright

WorkI AmMeWorldThinkIllusion

That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.

Luke Davies

GreatMoneyWordsFindWhyRight

I really loved working with Michael Caine. He's a really skilled and experienced actor. I learn something from everybody, but when you work with somebody like that, you actually learn things you can put in your toolbox, things about craft. Not necessarily life lessons, but actual things he knows that you can pick up.

Bruce McGill

LifeWorkLovedLearnYouActor

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

LifeGoodYourselfEffortYouLand

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

Noel Gallagher

ChangeBe DifferentMusiciansWant

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Muqtada al Sadr

EndSaidPolicyMustExclusionMany

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

Leon Redbone

PurposeGoMysteriousMeanAnything

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

Kelsea Ballerini

WriteEverythingFavoriteLyrics

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