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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Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.
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The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
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If it's servicing a real need, that doesn't go away in a recession. If you're serving a true need, and if you have a loyal group of customers that are falling... As the world goes through a tough time, these customers will stay with you.
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If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
