E. P. Thompson Quotes
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
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Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
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For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
