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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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
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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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We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
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I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.
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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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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
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You're starting to see the beginnings of a shift in the center of gravity away from Bush and his agenda toward the next agenda and the next leader of the party.
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Dreams do come true. But it will involve a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of studying.
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For a young player, the most important thing is to play.
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You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.
