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• The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Book, Men

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.592, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

  James Gould Cozzens

  Success, People, Goal

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• Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Want, Problem

  "Shirley MacLaine: the new dame in Downton". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

  Maurice Sendak

  Renaissance, Paint, Surface

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• People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Directors, Asking

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• There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

  Andrew Young

  People, Roles, Ambassadors

  "Andrew Young Fast Facts", www.cnn.com. March 4, 2017.

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• Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Good Day, Hair

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

  T. S. Eliot

  Two, Doubt, Progress

  Prufrock (1917) "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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• Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.

  John Stuart Mill

  Taken, Light, People

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Order, Important, Able

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• Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Drinking, People, Mind

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

  James Taylor

  Music, Play, People

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• Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Real, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Wise, Writing

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• I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Unhappy

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• I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Levels, Worst, Lack Of Faith

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• There are those to whom one must advise madness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Madness

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• Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

  Ray Bradbury

  Promise, Balance, Twenties

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• He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Novelists, Looks

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• No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

  Libba Bray

  Order, People, Parent

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, People, Meditation

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• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

  William Wilberforce

  Sunday, Blessing, Sea

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