Howard Jacobson Quotes

As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.

Howard Jacobson

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As much as we love an excuse to dress up, the red carpet is not the place.

John Gourley

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I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

Matthew Perry

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Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

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I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

Trevor Donovan

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The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

Ross Lovegrove

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It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters.

Miranda Otto

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As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.

Jay Samit

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Joseph P. Kennedy

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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Douglas Coupland

GoodTimeWorldBetterYouLaziness

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Douglas Fairbanks

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From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Christie Hefner

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