Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
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I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.
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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
