Irwin Thomas Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I like to do Pilates.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
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Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
