Francis Thompson Quotes
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today - our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
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Let every lion do his duty.
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For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
