Jim Thome Quotes
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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This is Phobos... Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos... same story.
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There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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A measure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind from the foundation of our free government to the present day.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with livingCause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,who have done the most singing.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
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The Earth needs rebels!
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
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No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
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You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.
