E. P. Thompson Quotes
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.
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We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course-and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
