Howard Jacobson Quotes

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

Howard Jacobson

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I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that show. I was so intimidated doing that show because I thought, 'Oh my gosh, those people are so young and gorgeous, and I'm a million years old, and I need a spray tan, and I'm going to be wearing all these fabulous clothes.'

Joanna Garcia

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If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.

John T. Chambers

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The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'

Sidney Lanier

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The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.

Michael Pollan

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We're trying to find needles in the haystack, and the needles are going dark, and it's because of this phenomenon we can't track their movements.

Michael McCaul

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After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

Jasper Carrott

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At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

Donald T. Regan

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I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

Chris Martin

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A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

Anne Fortier

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

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I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

Phil Anselmo

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