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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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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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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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
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One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
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I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
