I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.


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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS
A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
JOSH BILLINGS
The less we know the more we suspect.
JOSH BILLINGS
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
JOSH BILLINGS
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
JOSH BILLINGS
The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
JOSH BILLINGS
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
JOSH BILLINGS
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
JOSH BILLINGS
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
JOSH BILLINGS
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
JOSH BILLINGS
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
JOSH GROBAN
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will ...
JOSH HARTNETT
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
JOSH LIEB
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template,...
JOSH GREENBERG
Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.
JOSH LIEB
It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
JOSH LIEB
Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
JOSH LIEB
Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and peopl...
JOSH LIEB
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
JOSH BILLINGS
It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all...
JOSH LIEB
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead ...
JOSH HOMME
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit n...
JOSH BILLINGS
I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've fo...
JOSH DUHAMEL
The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
JOSH RADNOR
After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all '...
JOSH RADNOR
Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person...
JOSH HUTCHERSON
My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was...
JOSH HENDERSON
I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down ...
JOSH HOMME
When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a gir...
JOSH DUHAMEL
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
JOSH BILLINGS
Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex ...
JOSH HARTNETT
At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger...
JOSH LUCAS
I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to m...
JOSH ZUCKERMAN
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary....
JOSH MCDOWELL