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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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.
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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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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.
