Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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All true languageis incomprehensible,Like the chatterof a beggar’s teeth.
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It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.
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I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
