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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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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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
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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?
