Thomas Hardy Quotes
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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They have repeated their arguments but the substantive position has not changed.
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I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.
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Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
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Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.
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The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.
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The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.
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It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.
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Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.
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It's a darker season. A lot of dark color.
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I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. It took awhile to get over that whole, "That's Elijah Wood - Frodo, from The Lord of the Rings." I was a mega fan of that. I went to the all-day screenings of the director's cut, where you could see the really long versions of all three movies, in one day.
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Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
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If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
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But no one came. Because no one ever does.
