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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It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals' rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho 'cowboy diplomacy' that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan's first year in office: 'Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights.' Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
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I think the hardest person to love is yourself I mean – You carry your flaws like burdens And you feel them on your skin The words you shouldn't have said Still echo in your head So you keep quiet Your mistakes, like monsters They haunt you And you put them to sleep every night The words you should've said Still echo in your head I bet you'd give yourself a chance If you were someone else instead
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... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?
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The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
