Fred Thompson Quotes
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
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You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?'
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I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.
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Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.
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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
