Howard Jacobson Quotes

One of my agents once said I was one of the most dangerous men in London, and I was so excited by that. For a few days, I walked around Soho snarling.

Howard Jacobson

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MenDangerousSaidLondonExcited

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

Jim Capaldi

MeStrongAmericaFirstGuyJust

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

WorkManMoonWillRealNation

I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.

Andy Dunn

MyselfI AmNew YorkRootsProud

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

LifeAloneLogicToo MuchWantMuch

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

MotivationalProblemsStopSigns

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

Amy Sherald

SuccessPathMeYouTrueOff

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Rory Bremner

WordsMindMeReadingEndSame

Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.

DeMar DeRozan

ChangeDayOrganizationGameMindset

Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.

Chris Lowell

BeautifulGreatBestPeopleFriends

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

August Wilson

WorkMyselfPeopleThinkSelfSay

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Theroux

GoodFoodGratefulTravelYouLate

I would really love to go back to college, if there's any way I could to do it, and maybe minor in business.

Shanice Williams

LoveBusinessCollegeBackGoWay

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