Thomas Hardy Quotes
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive.
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I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically.
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
