Thomas Hood Quotes
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Quotes to Explore
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
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That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
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I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.
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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
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I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.
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The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
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I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
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Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.
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I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
