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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He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.
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I am a born fighter throughout my political life. I have not lost my heart by the results of the Parliamentary elections.
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I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.
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Commercial radio is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
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Corporations are "worms in the body politic"
