Fred Thompson Quotes
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
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I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
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Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.
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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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Laila: It isn't fair.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.
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If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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Just as we pull up to this place...I notice two very large American flags...It's as if there was a need to emphasize the Americanness of this place. 'We are American' says the first flag. 'No we really are!' says the second. It struck me as enormously sad, somehow awkward and tragic.
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It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
