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Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together. -- Sabrina Jeffries
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. -- David Letterman
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. -- Philip Stanhope
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. -- Therese Fowler
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer. -- Jim Ratcliffe
I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair. -- Harry Treadaway
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. -- Merton Miller
Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life. -- Charlie Pierce
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write. -- Robert E. Howard
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising. -- Matthew Stewart
The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising. -- Megan Smith
Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising. -- Linford Christie
More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates? -- Gary Bauer
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. -- Karl Rove
I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico. -- Matthew Stewart
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
There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments. -- RZA
The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son -- Kin Hubbard
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. -- Arnold Bennett
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. -- Philip Stanhope
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. -- Philip Stanhope
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb? -- Petronius Arbiter
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb -- Petronius
I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things. -- Maya Angelou
The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. -- Norman Thomas
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example. -- William James
I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden. -- Hillary Clinton
One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes. -- Gloria Steinem
Maybe some percentage that's substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising. -- Vinod Khosla
But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising! -- John Godfrey Saxe
I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that I deal with facts, that I deal with sufficient information. Which means having access to all information. -- Rex W. Tillerson
Coaches are very important to players. They're people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour. -- Novak Djokovic
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. -- Henry Ford
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. -- Oscar Wilde

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