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 master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: 'When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.'
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
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I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.
