R. S. Thomas Quotes
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.
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One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
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I turn now
