Thomas Hardy Quotes
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
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A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
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We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.
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Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'
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Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
