Hugh Lofting Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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I work in public.
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In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.
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As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.
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Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.
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A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
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There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
