Thomas Hardy Quotes
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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If you want the world to knowWe won't let hatred growPut a little love in your heart.
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'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
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Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds, it's like adrenaline: The pain is such a sudden rush for me!
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If they don't let us in through the front? We'll come through the side!
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Why should youngsters get butterflies in their stomachs while working with me when my condition too is no different from theirs?
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Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Anything above 40 is a little too old for me. I just look for a girl who is funny and has nice eyes and a smile.
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
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'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'
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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
