J. Arthur Thomson Quotes
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I believe that art should sanctify nature.
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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'
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I am mad about my wife.
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All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
