Thomas Hardy Quotes
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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It seems that you live in someone else's dream In a hand-me-down wedding dress With the things that could have been are repressed But you said your vows and you closed the door On so many men who would have loved you more
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
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We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.
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The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
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It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
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People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
