Thomas Hood Quotes
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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I can remember back when I was getting ready for the NBA, going through media training, going to certain camps - they almost teach you to not say anything that will get you any backlash or not say anything out of the norm, and what you're saying could be true to yourself.
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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
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When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
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I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
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Don't lose yourself just because you found somebody.
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Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
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Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.
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I love you right up to the moon - and back.
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This is very much becoming a reality in churches across the country.
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It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.
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In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.
