John Thorn Quotes
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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My own rhetoric is not so ‘us versus them.’ I don’t like fighting.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.
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I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.
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Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
