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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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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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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Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
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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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Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal, and without it nothing thinks.
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Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.
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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
