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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One on God's side is a majority.
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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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Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.
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The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life, all you have to be faithful to is the spirit of the facts, which I think I was in every case. As long as you don't violate their spirit, you can play with the facts.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
