It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
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Related He had a bad deal. With his neck injury then his eye socket and then his back, but he's now fully fi... GRAHAM DAWE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give... DAVID GOWER This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Sel... BOMAN IRANI If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface MARK TWAIN To me ... it was just like inviting my brother. KIRSTEN KIME My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to tal... KARIN SLAUGHTER And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done to him;
Breac... BIBLE And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; / Breach... BIBLE ...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing yo... COURTNEY SUMMERS You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing. ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS Do you know a magazine called the National Enquirer? In the current issue, somebody drew it to my at... JACK BRUCE And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all th... BIBLE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK I felt proud of them and happy for them as friends. But then I was, not jealous in a bad way, but I ... MALIK ROSE To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a st... EDWARD ZWICK To open or not to open the temples is a question for you to consider and not for me to agitate. If u... B. R. AMBEDKAR A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in... DR. ELMER HESS I got a bloody black eye for it. I couldn't see out of my eye. He's just trying to get his charges d... JOEL CLINTON In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine. ERWIN ROMMEL I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison,... DONNA LYNN HOPE Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space bein... BIBLE As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sac... CHöGYAM TRUNGPA The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE It was me, David and one phone line. David was up here on Labor Day answering phones. People would c... ADAM YOUNG Dissatisfied Sex is like a man going to the top of a mountain to have a sumptuous dinner with his sp... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Alan Campbell opened one eye. From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or... JOHN DICKSON CARR He would mace people, blind them and then either attack them with a weapon, like a bat or a knife as... MAC SHANNON If you wouldn’t kick down your customer’s door and start spitting sales facts in his face in per... DAN WALDSCHMIDT Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt... DAVID SLOMA Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cro... HOLLY HUNTER For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. HESIOD The finger lick is just a really bad habit - I do it all the time. My wife Ashley is going to kill m... PEYTON MANNING A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad m... HENRY JAMES We think this is kind of a back door way to raise general revenues. It's sort of like paying for din... BILL RATLIFF This strikes me as something under the category of unbelievably bad luck, where you cut one line and... BOB FINKELSTEIN His companion said to him while disputing with him: Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you from du... QURAN Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to s... SALLY QUINN It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then ... JOHN WANAMAKER When you start to realize: you are something that is precious to me, "Debug" me as you like; and whe... CG9SYXJHZGL0AWE= Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's gi... STEVE WINWOOD History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Mr. Peters then stepped closer to me shaking his fist and finger in my face. Mr. Peters then invited... SAM DUNLOP I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ... P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ''learning experience.'' Then again, I like to th... P. J. O'ROURKE If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possib... DAVID TUDOR I hit a bad tee shot, in the fairway bunker, then I caught it a little heavy and hit it in the bunke... CHAD CAMPBELL I hit a bad tee shot in the fairway bunker, then I caught it a little heavy and hit it in the bunker... CHAD CAMPBELL My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. JOHN UPDIKE A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river �... RICHARD SIKEN When you accept that your purpose is simply to exist, then, and only then, do you have the freedom t... BRANDI KEELER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a... ABERJHANI My music is like a spinning ball, ... It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to its or... YOUSSOU N'DOUR I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-eve... ELIZE DU TOIT It was a messy situation. I think David felt extremely betrayed. David told me that he felt of Lou a... NIKKI SYMINGTON He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if t... CECELIA AHERN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I had a bad day. Everything kind of went wrong for me. Two errors and then my knee. ALEX CINTRON If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethl... BIBLE Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook:
His cook once spoiled the dinner of an... F.G. MACBEATH Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. DAVID OGILVY After we've been dancing awhile and need a breather, we walk off the dance floor. I whip out my cell... SIMONE ELKELES I Measured my clothes today, they were too tight, too short, a open door to be measured. I then meas... SUSIE L HILL It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted lik... RAYMOND RADIGUET I can be a stupid girl inside of a crazy woman at times over you. If I weren’t, you should be worr... CRYSTAL WOODS And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like mo... GAYLE FORMAN To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife. DAVID OGILVY When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' I... AUSTIN MAHONE Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and t... MARC NEWSON I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. B... BOB DYLAN When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thoug... RICHARD SAVAGE I met the man of my dreams and the one I wanted to marry, it seemed like he was the one, even perhap... STARGAZER It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN My biggest tip is this... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the m... JAMES CORDEN I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I’ve never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë When I have two strikes, I feel free, ... My job is to make the pitcher throw a lot of pitches, and ... DAVID ECKSTEIN I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite of... CRISS JAMI The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a react... ARAVIND ADIGA
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DAVID CASSIDY You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. DAVID CASSIDY Most people view success by the results, and I don't. DAVID CASSIDY I think of my career as something apart from myself. DAVID CASSIDY You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft... DAVID CASSIDY I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo... DAVID CASSIDY Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i... DAVID CASSIDY When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne... DAVID CASSIDY Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is... DAVID CASSIDY I gave up my whole life to my career. DAVID CASSIDY Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing. DAVID CASSIDY There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ... DAVID CASSIDY It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly. DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ... DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ... DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '... DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series. DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we... DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig... DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ... DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis... DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for... DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did. DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence. DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general. DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi... DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.' DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. DAVID CASSIDY