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Advice Quotes
"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice."
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"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
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"An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice."
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."
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"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
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"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."
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"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."
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"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."
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"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
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"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy."
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"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things."
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"I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice."
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"Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it."
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"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
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"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."
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"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
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"Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can."
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"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."
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"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould."
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"I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am."
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"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
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"The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?"
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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."
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"I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions."
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"Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE."
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"If you're given a dirty look, wash it and give it back."
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