Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
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Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!
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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
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I do everything for my family.
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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
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I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.
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I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
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The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.
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When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
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I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.
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A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.
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He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.
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He wondered whether in fact, he had always been an outsider in the family, and whether he had so placed himself, or whether his parents and sisters had so elected him.
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Corporations are "worms in the body politic"
