A. J. Liebling Quotes

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

A. J. Liebling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1904 - December 28, 1963

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Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.

Jim Gerlach

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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

John George Nicolay

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I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

Matthew Perry

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As a kid, I was super skinny.

Amber Riley

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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

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I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

Stephanie Zimbalist

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The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.

Song Hye-kyo

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We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society.

Tony Evans

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The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Tom Stoppard

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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Mary J. Blige

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Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.

Michael Korda

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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Confucius

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