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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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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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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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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Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.
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I avoid processed food.
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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.
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You, whom I made for man's worship when earth was younger and fairer, hearken, and learn why I breathe new life into husks from my scrap-heaps! Gods of old days, discrowned, disjected, and treated as rubbish, hark to the latest way of the folk whose fathers you succored! They have discarded you utterly.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
