Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.
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If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.
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I'm not into one-hit wonders.
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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
