"New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging."

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Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

James Agate

#New Year Quotes #Witty Quotes #Years Quotes

“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.”
“I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.”
“When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that we could agree on. I think that's the way you get deals done, right? You and I might disagree 80% of the time but that still gives us 20% opportunity to try to work things out.”

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“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.”
“I haven't had the recognition I deserve, You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs.”
“I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the way I live and work, so when it comes to renovating, I believe in finding the true integrity of a house, then breathing life back into it in a way that connects with a certain type of buyer.”
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

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