James Thomson Quotes
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.
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Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
