Thomas Hood Quotes
I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.
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I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.
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I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
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I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
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I really think that even though Pinterest isn't a lot of people's idea of hard technology, it helps make everyday things a little bit better. And I believe that for most people, everyday things, those are everything.
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I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.
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I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.
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I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.
