Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
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I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
