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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
Laura Riding
Friendship
,
Art
,
Made
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond
Hardest
,
Performing
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
Edward Norton
Family
,
School
,
Fun
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
True
,
Wishes
,
Believes
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
Gabrielle Union
Love
,
Nature
,
God
My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.
Serena Williams
Dad
,
Guy
,
Meet
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
Joan Collins
Kids
,
Convince
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
Ten
,
Thousand
,
Hardest
Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.
Bobby Flay
Home
,
Successful
,
Simple
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
Studs Terkel
Good
,
Hope
,
Human
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
Ken Follett
Fun
,
Word
,
Research
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
Andrew Weil
Human
,
Die
,
Effort
The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.
Franklin P. Jones
Problem
,
Easy
,
Pick
I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
Chris O'Donnell
Work
,
Home
,
Dad
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz
Through
,
Find
,
Difficult
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
Richard Russo
Down
,
Sometimes
,
Simply
To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.
Jennifer Hudson
Biggest
,
Longest
,
Notes
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.
Gil Scott-Heron
Positive
,
Bad
,
Everything
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
Lynda Barry
Stupid
,
Race
,
Class
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
Stephen Ambrose
Work
,
Money
,
Yourself
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.
Niklas Zennstrom
Family
,
Friends
,
Find
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
Niklas Zennstrom
Family
,
Friends
,
Find
The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.
Geraldine Brooks
Find
,
Secret
,
Story
I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
James Caan
Career
,
Won
,
Along
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
John Frusciante
Music
,
Energy
,
Whatever
Covering a Super Bowl is actually one of the easiest things we do because our most experienced people are there. We'll have 25,000 feet of film and there's no way you're going to miss anything.
Steve Sabol
Film
,
Actually
,
Miss
Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.
Victor Cruz
Growing
I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.
Nicole Scherzinger
Time
,
Live
,
Why
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Edward Sapir
Done
,
Desire
,
Lies
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
Stephenie Meyer
Experience
,
Book
,
Another
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