Quotes with entertain

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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Carson Daly My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Elmore Leonard My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Butch Trucks Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Don DeLillo People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
    White Noise (2011) 76
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Brigham Young Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Donna Tartt The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Kin Hubbard The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • William Hazlitt There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Stephen Bayley Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Ben Affleck When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bob Marley You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Anna Held You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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