James Thomson Quotes
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
