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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In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.
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While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.
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We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.
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There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self - in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
