J. B. Priestley Quotes

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

J. B. Priestley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 13, 1894 - August 14, 1984

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Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

Joanna Newsom

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Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

John Gerzema

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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

John F. Kennedy

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Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

John G. Schmitz

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There's no such thing as holding back. I want to finish as soon as possible. The only time I did it was because he was a friend of mine. It was against Thales Leites. We went until the last round because he's a friend of mine, and I respect him.

Anderson Silva

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It is very important for me to be able to play and develop with players like Messi, Dybala, Di Maria, and Banega.

Mauro Icardi

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Tom Stoppard

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I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

Roger McGuinn

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Josef Albers

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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Bruno Latour

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I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

Apolo Ohno

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It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Anne Dudley

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