Thomas Hood Quotes
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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There's a big difference between knowing math and understanding why math models are important to a business.
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I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.
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A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
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I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.
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Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.
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I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
