If you’re famous, you
If you’re famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, Eric Idle came in and only left me $4. I always tip more than people expect. Eric Idle
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If you’re famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, Eric Idle came in and only left me $4. I always tip more than people expect. Eric Idle
They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people’s mistakes and spare themselves the … Read more
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile. Edward Hoagland
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you’d have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you’re putting words in their mouths. Fred D’Aguiar
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that’s the way the wise men make a living. Finley Peter Dunne
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. Duke of Wellington
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it’s a wonderful business but it’s make-believe, you must remember that. That’s one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy. Dolph Lundgren
You have to be yourself otherwise people won’t know who you are. Doc Watson
A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that’s the way people think. That’s why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won’t read them. It’s fine if some readers think of them as real. It’s just not the way that I think … Read more