Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
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I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.
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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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We have created a wealthy society with tens of millions of talented, resourceful individuals who play virtually no role whatsoever as citizens. Bringing these people in - with their networks of influence, their knowledge, and their resources - is the key to creating the capacity for shared intelligence that we need to solve our problems.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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Cheeseburger in paradise!
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Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
