Thomas Hardy Quotes
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
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Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
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The only thing that is constant is change.
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Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
