Jim Thome Quotes
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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The only thing about kissing anyone on screen is that forced intimacy is never pleasant. If you don't want to be kissing someone, it's hard to get over that barrier, and so there's a reluctance to be that close to someone.
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The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
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A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.
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Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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You can't play forever.
