R. S. Thomas Quotes
I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Music is about the performance.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.
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How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.
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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
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I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.
